He refused to look away. Then NIA whistleblower Kyle Antatico was killed.

He refused to look away. Then NIA whistleblower Kyle Antatico was killed.

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Friends had warned whistleblower Niruh Kyle Antatico to take it easy. “Ayaw pagkompyansa, barato ra kaayo ang kinabuhi karon,” one of them told him. (Don’t let your guard down because life is cheap these days.) But Antatico refused to stop. The former senior legal researcher at the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in Northern Mindanao said he could not turn away from the farmers who came to him, pleading for…