Philippines Catches an Alleged Murderer

After at least three years during which he was reportedly hiding in plain sight in Manila, Philippine authorities on Aug. 12 arrested Jovito Palparan, a retired army major general known as the “butcher of Bulacan.”

Palparan’s arrest, according to the US-based Human Rights Watch, “marks a rare challenge to the country’s rampant impunity, which the governm…