No amount of explanation that the right to due process is not incompatible with the right to justice for the victims and/or their families suffices. No amount of pointing out that due process assures that the right person is caught and convicted seems to convince people. If anything, this drug war is also an assault on years of human rights education. It is tragically an assault on the rights of these very people who are screaming for the victims and for their own safety. These arguments fail to understand that human rights protection must be given to all if these protections will protect all. Those of us in the human rights community, especially those like me who have worked tirelessly for the rights of rape victims, cannot but despair. And my despair is made deeper by the fact that I hear this assault on human rights from some academics and health personnel.