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Ex-cop says Duterte paid him, others to kill crime suspects
« on: February 20, 2017, 09:27:42 PM »
Monday, February 20, 2017



MANILA. Flanked by lawyers Arno Sanidad (left) and Jose Manuel Diokno (right), retired police officer Arthur Lascanas tells a news conference at the Philippine Senate in Pasay City on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017.


(AP) MANILA (Updated) -- A retired police officer said Monday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was Davao City mayor, ordered and paid him and other members of a so-called liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents, including a kidnapping suspect, his family and a critical radio commentator.

Human rights lawyers who presented Arthur Lascañas at a news conference said his allegations could be grounds for impeaching Duterte.

But Duterte's camp dismissed Lascañas' statement as a mere “demolition job.” “The demolition job against President Duterte continues,” Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement Monday.

“Our people are aware that this character assassination is nothing but vicious politics orchestrated by sectors affected by the reforms initiated by the Duterte administration,” he added. 

Duterte has denied his administration backs unlawful killings of suspects under his deadly crackdown against illegal drugs that is feared to have killed more than 7,000 mostly drug users and petty drug pushers since he took office in June.

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Re: Ex-cop says Duterte paid him, others to kill crime suspects
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2017, 09:28:23 PM »
The killings under the crackdown, an expansion of his anti-drug campaign when he was a longtime mayor of Davao City, have alarmed the United States, other Western governments and the UN rights officials.

In many public speeches, Duterte has told policemen to defend themselves if drug suspects fight back and has openly threatened drug lords and dealers with death.

Lascañas's comments came after he denied to a Senate hearing last year that he had been involved in any extra-judicial killings in Davao.

He testified at the inquiry last October 2016 after he was implicated by another witness, Edgar Matobato, a former militiaman who said Duterte ordered him and others to kill criminals in gangland-style assaults that left hundreds of people dead.

Breaking into tears at one point, Lascañas said Monday, February 20, that he was speaking up because he was bothered by his conscience, including his role in the deaths of his two brothers, whom he ordered killed because they were drug users.

"I had my own two brothers killed. Even if I end up dead, I'm content because I've fulfilled my promise to the lord to make a public confession," he said.

Lascañas narrated several killings that he said Duterte had ordered, permitted or financed as mayor of Davao, including the 1993 bombing of mosques as retaliation after Muslim rebels were blamed for the bombing a Roman Catholic cathedral.

Lascañas said he and his group shot dead a kidnapping suspect along with the man's pregnant wife, young son, father-in-law and two others with the consent of Duterte.

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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2017, 09:28:44 PM »
After his group informed Duterte about the capture of the suspected mastermind of a kidnapping in Davao, Lascañas quoted the mayor as saying: "All right, make it clean."

Another target was radio commentator Jun Pala, who was critical of Duterte.

He was killed in 2003 by gunmen, who then got financial rewards from the then mayor, Lascañas said.

He said the members of the supposed death squad were paid by Duterte, from P20,000 up to P100,000 depending on their target. "Mayor Duterte was paying us P20,000 sometimes, or P50,000, and it depends on the status of our target.

Sometimes, it’s P100,000. I am receiving the allowance from the Office of the Mayor [at the rate of] P100,000," he said.

"The existence of Davao Death Squad or DDS is real."

Lascañas was presented by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV at the Senate early Monday, February 20. (AP/With Ruth Abbey Gita/SunStar Philippines)

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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2017, 09:31:11 PM »
Palace: Lascañas part of 'demolition job' vs Duterte
Monday, February 20, 2017
By RUTH ABBEY GITA


MALACAÑANG on Monday dismissed as a mere “demolition job” the claim of a former Davao policeman that President Rodrigo Duterte was indeed connected to the so-called Davao Death Squad (DDS).

“The demolition job against President Duterte continues,” Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement. Andanar’s statement came former Senior Police Officer 3 (SPO3) Arturo “Arthur” Lascañas, who retired from the Philippine National Police in December last year, told a press conference that the DDS really exists.

Lascañas, who was presented by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV at the Senate on early Monday, said that the members of the supposed death squad were paid by Duterte, a former mayor of Davao City, from P20,000 up to P100,000 depending on their target. “The existence of Davao Death Squad or DDS is real,” Lascañas said.

“Mayor Duterte was paying us P20,000 sometimes, or P50,000, and it depends on the status of our target. Sometimes, it’s P100,000. I am receiving the allowance from the Office of the Mayor [at the rate of] P100,000.

At a Senate inquiry last year, Lascañas denied the existence of the DDS, calling it merely as a “media hype.” But Lascañas said he revealed the truth because of conscience.

Andanar, however, shrugged off the latest allegation hurdled against the President and stressed it was just “part of a protracted political drama aimed to destroy the President and to topple his administration.”

He cited that the Commission on Human Rights, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Senate Committee already absolved Duterte in his alleged involvement in the DDS. “Our people are aware that this character assassination is nothing but vicious politics orchestrated by sectors affected by the reforms initiated by the Duterte administration,” Andanar said. (SunStar Philippines)

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