Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to throw corrupt officials from helicopters mid-air, saying he has done it before. “If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out,” said Mr Duterte, who is waging war on corruption and drugs. It’s the latest claim by the … 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
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
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
Manny Pacquiao has admitted he took “all kinds of drugs” – but supports a crackdown on dealers which has led to more than 3,000 deaths in the Philippines. The boxing star, who was elected as a senator in May, said he backed president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and claimed that the leader was chosen … Read more
President Rodrigo Duterte has announced that the military exercises between the Philippines and the United States scheduled in October will be the last under his administration. Duterte made the announcement on Wednesday during his official visit to Vietnam, signaling a shift away from an alliance that is one of the oldest in Asia. “You [US] … 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