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The Davao Death Squad (DDS) is a vigilante group in Davao City, Philippines. The group is alleged to have conducted summary executions of street children and individuals suspected of petty crimes and drug dealing. [ 1 ]
October 28, 2024 at 9:06 AM. MANILA (Reuters) - Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed a "death squad" existed under his watch to control crime when he was Davao City mayor, but ...
October 30, 2024 at 7:40 AM. MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine police said on Wednesday they will investigate revelations made by former President Rodrigo Duterte that he assembled a "death squad ...
The Davao Death Squad (DDS), a Davao City–based vigilante group linked to Rodrigo Duterte, is estimated to have killed at least a thousand people since the 1990s. [1] According to Human Rights Watch , the group mostly targeted alleged drug dealers, petty criminals, and street children and was involved in forced disappearances , summary ...
9780593133132. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is a 2023 book by journalist Patricia Evangelista, published by Random House. The book documents the thousands of Filipinos killed by extrajudicial death squads and vigilantes during the administration of the president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte.
October 30, 2024 at 1:20 AM. Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte admitted to a senate inquiry on Monday that he had employed a “death squad” of gangsters during his tenure as a mayor ...
Occupation (s) Vigilante, Assassin. Military career. Allegiance. Davao Death Squad (formerly Lambada Boys) Years of service. 1988-2013. Edgar Bernal Matobato (born 1959) is a self-confessed hitman who claims to be a former member of the Davao Death Squad or the "DDS", an alleged vigilante group tasked to summarily execute suspected criminals.
De Lima presented as witness an alleged member of Davao City-based vigilante group Davao Death Squad, Edgar Matobato, who testified that Duterte was involved in extrajudicial killings in the city. Duterte dismissed the claims as a lie, [ 192 ] and the Senate probe was terminated on October 13, 2016, for lack of evidence. [ 193 ]