Ex-Philippines president Duterte: "I had a death squad" Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte stunned a senate hearing on Monday when he admitted having a "death squad" to help carry out his deadly war on drugs for over a decade during his tenure as mayor of Davao City.
Appearing before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee for the first time, the 79-year-old confessed: "I had a death squad. This was a death squad but I didn't use the police. I used gangsters. One gangster, I would order him – 'Kill this person, because if you do not, I will kill you now.'"
The admission came five hours into a nine hour-long probe investigating allegations of extrajudicial killings during Duterte's presidency, particularly under the controversial "Operation Tokhang" anti-drug campaign. Police put the official death toll of the operation at just over 6,000 deaths but human rights advocates argue the actual number is more than four times higher.
!pinoypride !asians 
I'm beginning to think the human rights orgs might have been onto something.
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!latinx I kneel to this man, I wish our politicians still had this spirit, when did death squads go out of fashion in our sacred Latin America?
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Na época da ditabranda nem tinha "death squads", eram só os milicos torturando e matando alguns guerrilheiros cada tanto. Esquerdoides "normais" iam pra cadeia sem habeas corpus.
Os hermanos peronistas eram os que tinham death squads como a "Triple A".
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Sim, brasileiros sempre foram preguiçosos, mas os hermanos já foram mais engenhosos, o Fujimori (que a paz e as bênçãos de Allah estejam sobre ele) tinha o grupo colina ou algo assim também
Long live the CCP
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How about you kneel by giving some
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How about you join up a death squad
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If I joined a death squad I'd be starting by shooting up your Mason Lodge.
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That's a start @BrasilIguana hate most of the people there
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