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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 ...
Davao Death Squad. 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 ...
Royina Marzan Garma is a retired police officer and government official. She is a long-time police officer in Davao City and later in Cebu City from 2018 until her retirement in 2019. Garma was the general manager of state-run Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office from 2019 to 2022. Garma is known to be a close associate of Rodrigo Duterte.
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 ...
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 ...
The Philippine National Police estimates the death toll of the extrajudicial killings at 8,000, with higher estimates of dead as high as 30,000. Duterte had allegedly employed death squads (Davao Death Squad) to kill low level criminals, drug dealers, and drug users during his more than two-decade tenure as mayor of Davao City.
In 2009, De Lima launched a probe into the suspected Davao Death Squad where members were reported to be “routinely killing street children and others in broad daylight,” according to a report ...