Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipina worker in Indonesia convicted (wrongly?) of drug trafficking, is set to be shot dead on Tuesday, April 28.
By the time bullets pierce through her organs and her life is snuffed out, she would have been one of the innumerable casualties of the Philippines' institutional policy of exporting cheap labor – a lonely reminder of the country's scant regard for the worth of its own people.
Not even prayers can hold their own against a government that chooses not to care.