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
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
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
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