I did a rough count and came up with a figure of about 1,400 bodies in this field. It’s located at a government department of health office in Suhi about 15 or 20 kilometers north of Tacloban City. These were all victims of super typhoon Yolanda, which struck this area on November 8, 2013. I had spent some time with the Bureau of Fire Protection in Tacloban City, and it was their job to collect the bodies from the area. I never did get a full and complete answer about this site at Suhi, but the basic idea was that bodies were brought here to be processed and identified before burial in mass graves. There was a lot of talk about DNA analysis to identify people, but little of that made sense to me considering how long these bodies had been exposed to the elements and the lack of any DNA material to compare samples with. I didn’t see how a DNA sample from these bodies would help with identification. In an interesting twist, the day after I took these photos, I read an article in a national newspaper in which a politician was denying that these bodies existed and were still lying out in the sun and rain in this field nearly two months after the typhoon. This was just one of many, many instances in which what I read in the media was flatly contradicted by what I saw with my own eyes.