I’ve heard the Philippines has a pretty harsh legal system so I don’t find this all that surprising. However, it is never a good thing when people are murdered, especially by the government. What they were doing was wrong and animal abuse is not cool so I can’t say I’m too broken up about it but two wrongs don’t make a right.
I wouldn't say that they have a harsh legal system, on the contrary with all the corruptions in the Philippines, justice could have been delayed and so it means it's been denied specially if the victims here doesn't have a lawyer to pay to defend or pursue the guilty party.
As for the animal abuse, it's hard to argue, but it seems that the Philippines is one of those country that allowed cock fighting ever since as it is one of their past time specially in the province. And it has grow so much that this Atong Ang was able to make it online and that's why this people has been kidnapped and killed because they might have been stealing from this criminals syndicate.