A Philippine lawyer on Monday filed a complaint at the world’s only permanent war crimes court against President Rodrigo Duterte, alleging his war on drugs has caused some 8,000 deaths. Lawyer Jude Sabio urged the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate Duterte and senior adminstration officials and bring charges of … Read more
An opposition lawmaker filed an impeachment complaint in the Philippine Congress on Thursday against President Rodrigo Duterte, calling for his removal for what he said were high crimes, betrayal of public trust and abuses of power. Lower house representative Gary Alejano accused Duterte of a laundry list of offences he said were worthy of impeachment, … Read more
A probe into whether Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ran a death squad is making progress following crucial whistleblower testimony this week, the head of the country’s rights watchdog said Tuesday. Philippine Commission on Human Rights chief Jose Gascon, who is investigating allegations that Duterte orchestrated murders while mayor of the southern city of Davao, said … Read more
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ran a death squad that killed many people, including a journalist and a pregnant woman, when he was mayor of a southern city, a retired policeman who claimed to part of the group said Monday. Arthur Lascanas, sitting alongside three prominent human rights lawyers, broke down in tears as he listed … Read more
Edgar Matobato’s days are spent — for now, at least — in a verdant, bucolic compound some way outside Manila. Chickens, ubiquitous in the rural Philippines, scratch in the dirt and there is a sizable supply of food stacked up on the porch of one of the small structures that make up the compound. It’s … Read more
Sixteen people were wounded in a grenade explosion outside a Catholic church during a Christmas eve mass in the Philippines’ restive southern island of Mindanao, a priest and police said on Saturday. Security forces across Southeast Asia are on alert ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, as police in Australia and Indonesia said … Read more
The Philippine President vowed Friday to keep up his controversial campaign against drugs as long as he remains in office. Rodrigo Duterte was met with a roar of approval and chants of “Duterte, Duterte” when he took to the stage in Singapore to address members of the Filipino community. He said he would not stop … Read more
A 6-year-old Manila boy killed in his sleep is among the latest victims in the ongoing violence against suspected drug criminals in the Philippines. “There was a knock on the door,” said Elizabeth Navarro, who is pregnant and already a mother of five at 29. “My husband said who’s that? Then I heard two gunshots.” … Read more
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte should be impeached after he admitted to personally killing drug suspects, one of his top critics told CNN. On Monday, Duterte said that when mayor of the southern city of Davao, he would patrol the streets “looking for an encounter so I could kill.” Since taking power in June, Duterte has … Read more
Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted killing suspected criminals during his time as mayor of Davao City. “In Davao, I used to do it personally. Just to show the guys that, if I can do it, why can’t you?” Duterte said. “And (I’d) go around Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around … Read more
About 70,000 people were imprisoned and 34,000 tortured during the despotic rule of Marcos On the night of March 24, 1983, around 30 government commandos, with “Rambo-style ammunition”, raided a house in the southern Philippine city of Davao, where Hilda Narcisco and three other church workers were staying. It was the height of the Ferdinand … Read more
Two-hundred bullets fired into an official. A corpse-eating crocodile. A billionaire killed in a lover’s tiff. They’re just some of the shocking allegations made by self-professed hitman Edgar Matobato before a Senate Inquiry into extrajudicial killings in the Philippines Thursday. Matabato claims he was part of a death squad run on the orders of President … Read more
A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country’s Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead. Edgar Matobato, 57, told the nationally televised Senate committee hearing that … Read more