The death squad, the Davao Death Squad that people are talking about -- this is all legend.
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They were killed by the Davao Death Squad, he said.
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They are saying that I'm part of a death squad?
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For a death squad, the D.D.S. has a surprisingly good reputation.
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DDS, Davao Death Squad, that's how he rid the city of crime.
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In 2013, Mr. Matobato said, he tried to leave the death squad.
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Killer with a conscience: Could this former death squad member bring down Duterte?
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Another brother, Santiago, was recently arrested and charged with commanding a death squad.
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He also affixed a "Right Wing Death Squad" patch to his E.M.T. jacket.
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General dela Rosa says he cannot confirm the existence of an organized Davao Death Squad, and dismissed as urban legends stories by confessed former death squad members, and even Mr. Duterte himself, of criminals thrown from helicopters or fed to crocodiles.
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The killings were attributed to a shadowy vigilante group called the Davao Death Squad.
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The letter also dismissed the death squad as a product of "rumors and other gossips".
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Before the U.S. bombed Al Zaidi, for example, it built bases for his death squad.
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Another, a ranch hand, described a death squad boss roaming the property freely on horseback.
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People who opposed the death squad, including some police officers, were deemed enemies and often targeted.
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Uribe's brother Santiago is accused of commanding a death squad during the nation's long civil war.
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Since then, another death squad member, Arthur Lascañas, has come forward and corroborated Mr. Matobato's testimony.
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Oberlander's job, as translator, may have also been instrumental in the atrocities committed by the death squad.
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HALFWAY through Rachel Seiffert's new novel, when the SS death squad starts shooting, most readers will shudder.
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This gripping documentary tracks down former Indonesian death squad leaders and has them reenact their mass-killings.
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Manila Death Squad is flashy and fun, but the final moments are a punch in the gut.
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Facebook banned a range of pages with names like ''Right Wing Death Squad'' and ''White Nationalists United.
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Mr. Duterte and his supporters have long denied the existence of a death squad in Davao City.
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"The only one who could command the Davao Death Squad was Mayor Duterte," he told The Times.
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Picardal says that by the time Fernando was killed by a death squad, he had already reformed.
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Machete-wielding death-squad leaders received high-level posts in Indonesia's government that they hold to this day.
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A CHR report three years later confirmed the "systematic practice of extrajudicial killings" by the Davao Death Squad.
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A death squad commander decides that "exterminating communists" should be rewarded with a trip to the United States.
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Had the death squad, which came after me and my family, been successful, I would have joined them.
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Investigators also found multiple references to "RWDS," or "Right Wing Death Squad," in photos on Mr. Zaremski's phone.
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The death squad, he said, came in trucks marked with the insignia of the provincial government of Antioquia.
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A decade later Santiago Uribe is now on trial for leading a death squad known as the 12 Apostles.
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By the late 1990s, he became the unofficial captain of a group popularly known as the Ningbo Death Squad.
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The movie's unnerving stillness is nowhere near as disturbing as the unremorseful confessions from the former death squad leaders.
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After that I fled a Yakuza death squad and FedEx'd myself to London, reading Moby Dick along the way.
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And then, three years ago, Filipinos elected Mr. Duterte, a provincial mayor known to deal justice by death squad.
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Moving beyond the trauma of the years of death-squad violence and the disruptions of war has proved difficult.
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In February, a former police officer, Arthur Lascañas, 56, came forward and confessed to having led the death squad.
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A soldier complains that the resistance is just killing people they disagree with, before musing about his death squad assignment.
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One former federal judge called the PTAB a "death squad," and the head of the PTAB cheerfully embraced this designation.
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The first time, she was just 21980, taken by an Argentinian junta death squad off the street in broad daylight.
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Instead, her primary contact with law enforcement is Teddy Butt, a bodybuilder who works nights on a police death squad.
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Matobato testified the death squad started out as a "liquidation squad" called "Lambada Boys," which he said was formed by Duterte.
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He abruptly left, with North leaving behind a handwritten list of death-squad leaders the United States wanted removed from command.
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After being extradited from Chile, he was convicted on four charges of corruption and one of complicity in a death squad.
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The characters transform from dark-humored swashbucklers who play drinking games and take selfies into the death squad in the title.
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His top police commander, Ronald dela Rosa, a former Davao police chief, calls the death squad "fiction" created by the media.
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It's a far cry from his nightmarish former life as a self-described death squad lieutenant in the southern city of Davao.
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Once its ability to operate with impunity was established, Mr. Kine said, that death squad began engaging in contract killings for money.
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On a typical afternoon, your fellow passengers may include Iranian-trained guerrillas and death-squad veterans who have grown rich on embezzlement.
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Mr. Uribe's brother, Santiago, is awaiting trial on charges that he ran a death squad called the Twelve Apostles from his ranch.
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Romero spoke out against the army until he was killed at the order of a right-wing politician and death squad leader.
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It also accuses him of running a death squad when he was mayor of the southern city of Davao, before becoming president.
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Two professed hit men have testified that they belonged to such a death squad, which they said was overseen by Mr. Duterte.
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He told me even then that he was on "the list" – referring to an unofficial target register kept by the Davao Death Squad.
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Lascanas also claimed he had killed two of his own brothers while working in the death squad, out of "blind loyalty" to Duterte.
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More than 1,400 people are thought to have been murdered between 1998 and 2015 by vigilante killers known as the "Davao Death Squad".
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Senator Leila de Lima languishes in prison on trumped-up narcotics charges after daring to investigate his dealings with the Davao Death Squad.
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There is strong evidence that the eight suspects were involved in a murder conspiracy bearing the characteristics of a paramilitary death squad operation.
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Human rights activists say official investigations of death-squad killings have been hampered by a lack of witnesses, bureaucratic apathy and political influence.
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Analysts commonly suggest these names also help the government downplay the group's origins in the paramilitary death-squad federation, which demobilized in 20113.
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His death squad was accused of gunning down dozens of migrants trying to sail to Europe, according to a survivor of the massacre.
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Of the more than 1,400 people the Davao Death Squad is believed to have killed, at least one was not a crime suspect.
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At the hearing, representatives from the Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said they will open or resume investigations on the Davao Death Squad.
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But his murder, ordered by an army-linked death squad, and that of three American nuns months later, brought international condemnation of the junta.
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" Last year, Duterte addressed claims he was part of a death squad during a regular live weekly TV show broadcast in the Philippines. "Me?
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A promising young filmmaker perfectly toes the line between fun filmmaking and bleak subject matter in his colorful new short film, Manila Death Squad.
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" The site has also reportedly removed a number of pages since this weekend, featuring names like "Right Wing Death Squad" and "White Nationalists United.
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In 2009, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murders carried out by a military death squad while he was in office.
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Edgar Matobato, an unassuming man with a mop of salt-and-pepper hair, claimed to have been a member of the Davao Death Squad.
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Archbishop Óscar Romero, shot dead while serving mass, is a hero among left-wingers; his assassin was a member of a right-wing death squad.
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For his critics, he was a dictator who shut down congress, destroyed checks and balances, engaged in bribery and was complicit in a death squad.
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Senators concluded after their inquiries that no proof existed that the "Davao death squad" existed, despite testimony by two men who said they were members.
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Romero, then archbishop of San Salvador, was shot dead in 1980 by a right-wing death squad as he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel.
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Matabato claims he was part of a death squad run on the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte while he was still mayor of Davao City.
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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's opposition on Wednesday demanded an independent investigation into a spate of unexplained killings and the possible existence of a police death squad.
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Romero, a champion of the poor who became a human rights icon in Latin America, was slain by a right-wing death squad in 1980.
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In 2009, a special supreme court tribunal sentenced the former president to 25 years in prison for authorizing a death squad responsible for killing civilians.
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As do the para-political inquiries: In February, Mr. Uribe's younger brother, Santiago, was arrested for supposed ties to a death squad, the Twelve Apostles.
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Part death squad, part criminal enterprise, their ranks are filled with retired and off-duty police officers who kill at will, often with total impunity.
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"Our work was to kill criminals like drug pushers, rapists, snatchers," Matobato said of the Davao Death Squad (DDS) of which he was a member.
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One theory is that all the raids were carried out by a single death squad called in by local police commanders to deal with each gang.
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Human Rights Watch has been investigating Duterte and the Davao Death Squad (DDS) for years, having recorded 1,424 deaths committed by the DDS and copycat groups.
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Chávez, the new cardinal from El Salvador, was a close associate of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated by a right-wing death squad in 1980.
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Pope Francis conferred sainthood on Óscar Romero, an archbishop who was murdered in 1980 while saying mass by an army-backed death squad in El Salvador.
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The 1,000-plus More than 1,000 people were killed by the death squad in Davao City while Duterte was mayor from 1988 until 2013, Matobato said.
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Duterte has been dogged by accusations that he ran a death squad when he was mayor of Davao City and oversaw a fierce crackdown on crime.
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All four killings occurred in the past nine months and bore the hallmarks of a loose-knit group that the locals call the Davao Death Squad.
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But, leading judges have called it a patent "death squad" and the United States Patent and Trademark Office has admitted in court to stacking the panels.
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The report linked the killings to a Vietnamese political organization called The Front that was alleged to be operating a death squad in the United States.
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Rebels blamed a Ukrainian death squad, while an aide to Ukraine's director of domestic intelligence said Mr. Plotnitsky had fallen victim to infighting in his ranks.
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His death squad was implicated in the murder or disappearance of more than 75 Chileans, among the estimated 3,000 who died or disappeared during Pinochet's tenure.
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He said on Monday he had personally killed 300 people, about 200 as a member of a "Davao death squad" of which Duterte had full knowledge.
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On a vast, unstretched canvas, against a solid ground of Pompeian red, three louche soldiers from a Latin American death squad joke around, over two corpses.
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In 2009, a special supreme court tribunal sentenced him to 25 years in prison for authorizing the operation of a death squad responsible for killing civilians.
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I haven't heard enough to pass any real judgements, but judging from this track, I'm going to need to keep an eye on this Cleveland death squad.
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The deaths caused a stir in Mexico, not least because of speculation that a police death squad was involved and because the authorities framed clearly innocent people.
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When he tried to retire from the death squad three years ago, he said, he was seized by his colleagues and tortured before they eventually released him.
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It said acting and retired police officers worked as "handlers" for death-squad gunmen, giving them names and photos of targets - an allegation denied by Davao police.
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On Sunday, Francis wore the bloodstained cincture of the martyred archbishop, who was killed by a right-wing death squad on March 153, 1980, while celebrating Mass.
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Mr. Fujimori, the former dictator, was convicted in 2009 of human rights crimes during his rule, including the killings of 25 people by a military death squad.
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During his appearance at the now-closed Senate inquiry into extrajudicial killings, Matobato claimed more than 1,000 people were killed by the death squad while Duterte was mayor.
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A court in Peru ruled that Alberto Fujimori, a former president, could be tried for his alleged role in the death-squad killings of six people in 1992.
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Opposition leaders say the groups are part motorcycle club, part death squad and worry that, as Venezuela's political and economic crisis worsens, no one is reining them in.
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In 2009, a special supreme court tribunal sentenced the former president to 25 years in prison for authorizing the operation of a death squad responsible for killing civilians.
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Another notorious killer, Eugene de Kock, who had led a police death squad targeting anti-apartheid activists, was granted parole in January 2015 after 20 years in prison.
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In 21997, he was sentenced to 214 years in prison for, among other atrocities, his role in creating a death squad that murdered an 20163-year-old boy.
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And he has showered patronage on a tribal death squad called the Avengers of Blood, blamed for a long string of disappearances and killings of his political opponents.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Late each night, a dozen women chat and share a meal before hitting the narrow streets of a Manila suburb where a death squad once roamed.
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A shaggy-haired, teddy-bear-shaped man in late middle age, Matobato confessed — out of guilt, he said — to working as an assassin for the Davao death squad.
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His brother, Santiago Uribe, is awaiting trial on charges that he was a leader of a death squad called the "Twelve Apostles" that was run from his cattle ranch.
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Oberlander was a member of the infamous Einsatzkommando 20.23a — also known as the Ek 220.2a — a mobile death squad that operated behind German lines, exterminating Jewish and other civilians.
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Oberlander was a member of the infamous Einsatzkommando 10a — also known as the Ek 10a — a mobile death squad that operated behind German lines, exterminating Jewish and other civilians.
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Mr Fujimori, who is 80, had been sentenced to 25 years in jail for his role in the murder of two dozen people by a government-backed death squad.
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By 2010 the Zetas broke away from the Gulf Cartel, now controlled by Cárdenas's brother, Antonio Cárdenas aka Tony Tormenta, who created his own death squad called the Scorpions.
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In testimony to the Philippines Senate in September, Matobato said he was part of the Davao Death Squad (DDS), which he alleges was run on the orders of Duterte.
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The Americans were outnumbered 5 to 1, some of the people at the table were death-squad commanders, and any failure would doom Reagan's entire strategy in Latin America.
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In his most explosive remarks, Mr. Matobato said that he had heard Mr. Duterte personally order some of the killings carried out by the so-called Davao Death Squad.
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A United Nations truth commission found that Archbishop Romero's killing had been organized by Roberto d'Aubuisson, a Salvadoran politician and death squad leader who died of cancer in 1992.
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Romero, a champion of the poor, was killed by a right-wing death squad in San Salvador in 1980 and was made a saint by Pope Francis in 2018.
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Ex-Davao Death Squad leader: Duterte ordered bombings Duterte: De Lima must 'face the music' Felons from the prison facility have directly linked de Lima to the penitentiary drug trade.
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No wonder Randall Rader, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Federal Circuit, called the IPR panel a "patent death squad" in BusinessWeek last year.
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Mr. Matobato also reiterated that he was a ghost employee of Davao City who was paid for his death squad activities but did not show up in city personnel records.
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In his testimony, Mr. Matobato, 57, said he was appointed to the death squad, originally known as the Lambada Boys, after Mr. Duterte was elected mayor of Davao in 1988.
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Ms. de Lima said on Tuesday that her hearings had established "an uncanny similarity" between killings committed by the Davao Death Squad and the "current phenomenon" of nationwide extrajudicial killings.
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Both have said publicly that the death squad was formed with the aim of going after small-time drug dealers but was also used to eliminate Mr. Duterte's political opponents.
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When Cárdenas took control of the cartel in the late '90s, he recruited a number of Mexican military deserters to form his own army-like death squad, known as the Zetas.
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The man, who identified himself as Edgar Matobato, testified that he was part of the 300-member "Davao Death Squad" (DDS), which he alleges was run on the orders of Duterte.
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Matabato said he was part of a death squad to kill drug dealers on orders from Duterte when the president was mayor of the city of Davao between 1988 and 2013.
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Mr. Tolentino, who has been practicing criminal law in Davao for 56 years, said he had never come across a case involving a member or a victim of a death squad.
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The Philippine Commission on Human Rights said that from 2005 to 2009, the Davao Death Squad had killed 20033 people, including 107 who had criminal records or were suspected of crimes.
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The social network has already removed a handful of other right-wing Pages like "Right Wing Death Squad" and "White Nationalists United," the latter of which Recode first noticed on Monday.
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Among them were the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero by a right-wing death squad and the 1981 military massacre of hundreds in and around the village of El Mozote.
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He was extradited from Chile to Peru in 2007 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights violations that a military death squad carried out under his watch.
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What came to be called the Davao Death Squad is reported — by witnesses, former members and human rights organizations — to have killed suspected criminals, often from the back of a motorcycle.
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Santiago Uribe is awaiting trial on charges that he commanded a death squad called the Twelve Apostles that is suspected in the murder of hundreds during the nation's long civil war.
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Related: The Philippines' Death Squad-Loving New President Has Some Surprisingly Progressive Plans In the same speech, according to the Associated Press, Duterte made pointed remarks about alleged corruption within law enforcement.
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The death squad was allegedly organized by Saud al-Qahtani, a former hacker and a top aide to M.B.S. who had built much of his power by monitoring and manipulating social media.
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Similarly, the CNP focused early on international affairs, presenting Oliver North with a special award "for national defense" and inviting far-right Salvadoran death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson to give a talk.
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Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City said in a telephone interview that the killing was never solved, though members of a paramilitary death squad were suspected of having carried it out.
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"It hurts, I'm angry," said Gisella Ortiz, whose brother Luis Enrique Ortiz was dragged from a dormitory at La Cantuta University, outside Lima, with eight others and killed by a death squad.
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"During the time that he was the mayor of Davao City, President Duterte never even lifted a finger to investigate the thousand killings undertaken under the Davao Death Squad," the complaint says.
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Peru's supreme court overturned the pardon given to Alberto Fujimori, a former president who had been jailed for the killing of 25 people by a government-backed death squad in the early 1990s.
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The rights group also reported that acting and retired police officers worked as "handlers" for death-squad gunmen in Davao, giving them names and photos of targets, an allegation denied by Davao police.
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Shifting from individual to societal empathy, Beam has a moving section on Eugene de Kock, the notorious South African death squad chief who captured, tortured and killed many in the anti-apartheid resistance.
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There was a series of books by two self-proclaimed "Ningbo masters," as well as traveling seminars that promised to teach legions of novice investors the moneymaking secrets of the Ningbo Death Squad.
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And if the findings of Mr. Sabio, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and politicians, or the confessions of the former death squad members, are not enough evidence, there are Mr. Duterte's savage words.
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The report corroborated the earlier testimony of Edgar Matobato, a 57-year-old self-confessed triggerman, who told a Senate panel last September that he was a member of the Davao Death Squad.
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The Christmas Eve pardon cleared Fujimori's convictions for graft and human rights abuses 12 years into a 25-year prison sentence, and shields him from a pending trial for a 1992 death squad massacre.
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The uzi Matobato said a gunfight erupted after he and another member of the death squad got in an argument with a man named Amisola, an official with the country's National Bureau of Investigation.
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But he repeated his testimony from last week that he saw Mr. Duterte speak to the commander of the death squad, a police officer, who then ordered the squad to carry out a killing.
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Ms. de Lima has said that her hearings had established "an uncanny similarity" between killings committed by the Davao Death Squad and those that have happened nationwide since Mr. Duterte took office in June.
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The family lost elections in 2015, and in 2017 the country's Criminal Investigation Department told a court that during Mr. Rajapaksa's time as defense secretary, he ran a death squad that had targeted opponents.
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The British government waived a protocol that British citizens extradited to America to stand trial for murder should not face the death penalty, in the case of two members of an Islamic State death squad.
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Former Davao police commanders and the Commission on Human Rights would also be questioned about their previous investigations into a so-called Davao death squad, according to Senator Panfilo Lacson, who will head the inquiry.
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He added that Matobato would be included in the next hearing, but would be asked only to testify on the recent spate of extrajudicial killings, not past incidents or allegations about the Davao Death Squad.
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The first complaint was filed in April 2017 by two men who said they had worked in Mr. Duterte's death squad after he became mayor of the southern city of Davao in the late 1980s.
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In September, De Lima called witness Edgar Matobato -- who said he was a member of a 300-member "death squad" in Davao City -- where Duterte was mayor for more than two decades, to testify in court.
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In stunning testimony last week, a former hit man told a Philippines Senate hearing that he had been part of a death squad that served under Duterte when he was mayor of Davao, targeting drug dealers.
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Among them: Right Winged Knight, Right Wing Death Squad, Awakening Red Pill, Physical Removal, Genuine Donald Trump, Awakened Masses, White Nationalists United, Vanguard America, Radical Agenda: Common Sense Extremism and the personal page of Chris Cantwell.
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Though he previously denied any affiliation with the Davao Death Squad, Duterte admits his connections in a 2015 interview with ABS-CBN News and warns that he will kill up to 100,000 criminals if elected president.
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Human Rights Watch research indicates that many of the 85033,271 killings the police attribute to "vigilantes" and drug gangs are a veneer to shield themselves and police agents from culpability in death-squad-style extrajudicial executions.
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In February, the Supreme Court began investigating Uribe for intimidating key witnesses—one of whom was later murdered outside Medellín—against him and his brother, Santiago, who is currently on trial for leading a death squad.
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Opponents of IPR have unreasonably labeled it a "death squad" for patents, pointing to the process's high rate of overturning patents as evidence of the system's failure and the threat it allegedly presents to inventors nationwide.
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He was silenced more than 216 years ago at 38 — murdered in the summer of 1936 by a paramilitary death squad at the outset of the Spanish Civil War for his anti-fascist sentiments and homosexuality.
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In addition to investigations of Mr. Uribe and his associates, Mr. Uribe's brother Santiago is also expected to face trial related to allegations that he ran a death squad on his ranch called the Twelve Apostles.
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During his 22-year tenure as the mayor of Davao City in southern Mindanao, Duterte was a vocal cheerleader for a vicious death squad that killed hundreds of "undesirables," including kids as young as 14-years old.
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Star witness Edgar Matobato reappeared before the committee after his testimony last week implicated Duterte in a spate of vigilante murders carried out by the "Davao Death Squad" when Duterte was mayor of the southern Philippines city.
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Last week, a former death squad member made allegations to the committee, including that Duterte used an uzi submachine gun to kill a member of the Justice Department when the President was still mayor of Davao City.
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Related: The Philippines' death squad-loving new president has some surprisingly progressive plans Estimates for the number of drug-related extrajudicial killings under Duterte vary, but there's no disputing the fact that the body count is high.
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Mr. Fujimori had been sentenced in 2009 to a 25-year term for rights abuses that included the killing of more than two dozen people by a military death squad that prosecutors said Mr. Fujimori had created.
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The court found that Mr. Fujimori had created a death squad in the 1990s that had murdered 15 people at a neighborhood gathering in Lima and another 10 who were kidnapped and whose bodies were later burned.
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In an interview with The New York Times, he said the death squad was founded in 1988 at a lunch he attended at the old Menseng Hotel with Mr. Duterte, several police officers and six other recruits.
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Ms. de Lima chaired a Senate panel last year that heard testimony from a professed hit man who said he belonged to a death squad that Mr. Duterte had overseen while serving as mayor of Davao City.
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An opposition lawmaker in the Philippines has filed an impeachment complaint against controversial President Rodrigo Duterte, accusing him of crimes ranging from abuse of power to running his own "death squad" when he was mayor of Davao.
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Alberto Fujimori, who oversaw a 10-year dictatorship in Peru from 1990 to 2000, was sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity, including killing more than 2 dozen people by military death squad.
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Duterte has previously been accused of killing a government official with an Uzi submachine gun, and while mayor of the southern Philippines city was accused of running an extrajudicial unit, commonly known as the Davao Death Squad (DDS).
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"Based on what I saw, what I heard, and what we have researched on the phenomenon of killings in Davao, I have no doubt in my mind that there existed such a death squad," De Lima told me.
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She traces her jailing to the day last September when her committee heard testimony from Edgar Matobato, a professed hit man who said he worked for the Davao Death Squad, which he said Mr. Duterte created and commanded.
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Additional accounts on Facebook and Instagram that have been removed for violating hate speech policies include Physical Removal, Awakened Masses, White Nationalists United, Vanguard America, Genuine Donald Trump, Awakening Red Pill, Right Wing Death Squad, and Right Winged Knight.
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Duterte and De Lima have been longtime rivals, after the senator tried to tie him to the "Davao Death Squad" (DDS), a paramilitary vigilante organization, when she was head of the Commission on Human Rights under the former administration.
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De Lima While De Lima has long sought to have Duterte officially investigated over alleged death squad killings in Davao, and rights groups have denounced his apparent "impunity," he has stepped up his attacks on her in recent weeks.
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Joseph Franco, a research fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who has studied the Philippine military establishment, said that allegations about the Davao Death Squad had never been aired so publicly at a high-level Senate hearing.
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Rodrigo Duterte took office as president of the Philippines one month ago on Friday, promising death to drug dealers and a nationwide expansion of the brutal, death-squad approach to crime that made him famous as mayor of Davao.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine senators abruptly ended a hearing on Monday into allegations by a retired policeman that a "death squad" operated under President Rodrigo Duterte when he was mayor of Davao City, citing no proof that it even existed.
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Filipino citizens have filed two complaints with the International Criminal Court accusing Duterte of murder, with one filed by two men claiming to be former members of a death squad he led as mayor of the city of Davao.
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Mr. Sabio has represented two men, Edgar Matobato and Arturo Lascañas, who say they were members of the Davao Death Squad, a unit they say was created and directed by Mr. Duterte when he was mayor of Davao City.
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Manila, Philippines (CNN)The self-proclaimed head of the notorious Davao Death Squad (DDS) has claimed under oath that he killed almost 2003 people and was paid millions of pesos -- more than $20,000 -- for his actions by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.
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During the many years Mr Duterte was mayor of Davao, the biggest city in the southern part of the country, a vigilante group known as the Davao Death Squad gunned down drug suspects and others whom the gunmen thought were criminals.
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CATHOLICS veered between two opposing conclusions when they observed the joyful rituals attending last month's canonisation, in Rome, of Oscar Romero, an archbishop of El Salvador who was slain at the altar by a right-wing death squad in 1980.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A retired police officer who testified to killing hundreds of people while working for a "death squad" under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte when he was a city mayor has left the country in fear of his life, he said.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A self-confessed assassin who testified to being in a "death squad" under Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte will soon file a case at the International Criminal Court accusing the president of crimes against humanity, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
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A few weeks earlier the villa had been the site of a suspected death-squad confrontation, and the walls and carpets were still stained with victims' blood when Bush aides arrived to scout the location a few days before the meeting.
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This week, hundreds of people are gathered in the small town of La Esperanza in Honduras to remember the extraordinary life of Berta Cáceres, brutally cut short one year ago by a death squad that included U.S.-trained security agents.
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Mr. Ashton's scenario, on which Mr. Joffé collaborated for the screenplay, pits the real-life figure Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Forest Whitaker) against a fictional composite, Piet Blomfeld (Eric Bana), an unrepentant one-time death squad member and now a prison lifer.
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Through it all, Neruda was fueled by his love for Spain and his compassion for the victims of fascism, including one of his best friends, the poet Federico García Lorca, who had been murdered by a fascist death squad in 1936.
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Both Romero, who was shot by a right-wing death squad while saying Mass in 20133, and Paul, who guided the Church through the conclusion of the modernizing 22013-21963 Second Vatican Council, were contested figures within and without the Church.
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The case stems from an earlier attempt by Iván Cepeda, a left-wing senator who has often sparred with Mr. Uribe, to investigate allegations that Mr. Uribe founded a death squad in his home province, Antioquia, before he became president.
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According to Human Rights Watch, while Duterte was mayor of Davao, elements of the local police and local government operated a death squad in a clandestine war that killed about 1,000 people, including suspected criminals, drug dealers, leftists and street children.
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At the time, he said he was one of the first civilians Mr. Lascañas had recruited into the death squad, originally known as the Lambada Boys, that was responsible for kidnappings, killings and the bombing of a mosque in Davao.
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Two men, Arthur Lascanas, a former Davao City police officer, and Edgar Matobato, a self-described hit man, have said they were members of a "death squad" led by Mr. Duterte that targeted petty criminals, drug traffickers and political opponents.
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Mr. Sabio's complaint says that after becoming president, Mr. Duterte replicated the methods used by the Davao Death Squad nationwide, including the planting of false evidence, cash payments to killers, cooperation with the local authorities, and police participation and command.
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Related: The Philippines' Death Squad-Loving New President Has Some Surprisingly Progressive Plans The 71-year-old politician has been criticized for allowing a spree of vigilante killings, and critics fear he could let them happen on a larger scale as president.
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Last week, Senator Leila De Lima called a hitman to testify before lawmakers that while, as mayor, President Rodrigo Duterte ran a "death squad" whose hundreds of victims included a justice department official who Duterte personally killed with an Uzi submachine gun.
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Lower house representative Gary Alejano accused Duterte of a laundry list of offences he said were worthy of impeachment, from concealing assets and conflicts of interest to drugs-related extrajudicial killings and running an alleged "death squad" when he was Davao City mayor.
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Several Senate hearings into allegations that Duterte operated a death squad when he was a city mayor and was now using the same approach on a national scale have been inconclusive, while an impeachment complaint filed earlier this year was dismissed by Congress.
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The previous summer, a singer named Androo O'Hearn, from the band Shaolin Death Squad, had taught the group's members to tighten their throats so that their aryepiglottic folds—triangular membranes that encircle the larynx and protect it when swallowing—began to vibrate furiously.
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Then after that, the series of reports for the New York Times, and this video we did, a video of this witness who used to be a member of the Davao Death Squad, which was allegedly created by Duterte way back in Davao.
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In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Matobato said that Mr. Duterte was the founder of the Davao Death Squad, the shadowy group believed to have carried out the killings, and that it was largely made up of police officers.
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Apartheid death-squad leader Eugene de Kock, dubbed 'Prime Evil' for his role in the torture and murder of scores of black activists in the 1980s and early 1990s, was freed on parole last year after serving more than 20 years in prison.
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Last year, a Senate panel led by Ms. de Lima heard testimony from a professed hit man, Edgar Matobato, who said he belonged to a death squad that had been overseen by Mr. Duterte when Mr. Duterte was mayor of Davao City.
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"Both Matobato and Lascanas are vital witnesses to prove that the Davao death squad was used by Duterte as a template, or as a strategy or policy, for crime control through extrajudicial killings since he became president," Mr. Sabio said in an interview.
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"The basic material hallmarks or elements in the extrajudicial executions in the Davao Death Squad in Davao City and in the continued extrajudicial executions after President Duterte became the president are too numerous and too obvious to escape scant attention," the complaint says.
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But a recent YouTube video shows some members of the anti-roach death squad preparing for a more speculative kind of cockroach: They're envisioning a future when the bug will have terraformed into a giant mutant ninja roach capable of surviving Martian conditions.
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In September last year, Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said it was "appalling" that prosecutors had failed to bring formal charges against eight men identified as members of a Nazi death squad, three years after preliminary inquiries were launched.
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If he has any issue with entertaining someone who has been open about his desire to kill drug users -- and who has been accused, under oath, by a self-proclaimed "death squad" leader of having done so on Duterte's orders -- it is not apparent here.
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"DDS" refers to the Davao Death Squad, a state-sanctioned vigilante group said to be active in Davao City, where Mr. Duterte served as mayor; organizations like Human Rights Watch accuse the group of having killed petty thieves, drug pushers and other minor criminals.
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Ms. de Lima's arrest came just days after a retired police officer said that he had led the death squad in Davao that Mr. Matobato described in his testimony last year, and that he had acted on the direct orders of the mayor, Mr. Duterte.
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Mr. Lascañas, 56, said that he was the leader of the Davao Death Squad, a group that he said Mr. Duterte had formed to go after small-time drug dealers and petty criminals but that later evolved into a force to eliminate political opponents.
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Jude Josue Sabio, a lawyer for two men who say they belonged to a death squad that operated under Mr. Duterte when he was the mayor of the city of Davao, says he intends to bring a case against Mr. Duterte in The Hague.
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Season 2 centers around the formation of a deadly shadow alliance between Escobar's many enemies: the U.S. government, the Colombian government, his rivals in the Cali Cartel, disaffected elements of the Medellin Cartel, and a right-wing death squad led by brothers Fidel and Carlos Castaño.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine leftists reacted with dismay on Wednesday to a threat by President Rodrigo Duterte to create a "death squad" to hunt what he said were Maoist assassins, a plan critics said could trigger a spree of killings similar to his bloody war on drugs.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A 92-year-old man who has confessed to being a former member of a Nazi death squad won a court victory on Thursday against Canada, boosting his chances of staying in the country that has been trying to revoke his citizenship for two decades.
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During his time as mayor of the city of Davao Duterte admitted having ties to the Davao Death Squad, a vigilante group that human rights organizations say was responsible for the extrajudicial killings of more than 1000 drug dealers, users, petty criminals, and even street children.
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MANILA — A retired police officer racked with guilt over the murders of two of his own brothers has reversed himself and confessed to leading the Philippine death squad that killed them, saying that he was acting on the direct orders of Rodrigo Duterte before he became president.
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The lawyer, Jude Josue Sabio, filed the complaint in his own name, but he also represents two men who have publicly said they were paid members of the death squad that Mr. Duterte set up in Davao City when he was the mayor to hunt down drug dealers.
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Among the more notorious crimes: Nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University were kidnapped and murdered by a military death squad, and 15 people, including an 8-year-old, were killed in the Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima for supposedly belonging to the Shining Path terrorist group.
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For more than a year, he was pursued by a coalition of his enemies: the D.E.A. and the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command; a Colombian police team called the Search Bloc; and a death squad of criminal rivals that called itself Los Pepes—short for People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar.
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Organized by a group of six activists associated with the U.S.-based movement, Saturday's march included about 200 Brazilian activists and a ceremony at Candelaria cathedral, the infamous site of a 1993 massacre in which a death squad, including off-duty policemen, killed eight children and adolescents who slept on the church steps.
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But the self-described hit man, Edgar Matobato, who said he killed about 50 people as a member of a death squad in Davao City, was unshaken in his testimony that Mr. Duterte, as mayor there, presided over about 1,000 killings of criminal suspects and political opponents over more than two decades.
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These women — a nun, a doctor who treats the poor, a woman who entertains death-squad assassins in her living room while Forché and another woman hide upstairs — lead her deeper into the country's harsh realities; it is with her female friends that she has two terrifying near escapes from death squads.
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The complaint, however, appeared to have been timed to support an effort by a lawyer for Edgar Matobato and Arturo Lascañas, the two men who say they belonged to the Davao death squad, to bring a case against Mr. Duterte at the International Criminal Court at The Hague alleging crimes against humanity.
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"Some countries have a very, very tough penalty—the ultimate penalty," President Trump said, referring to the death squad policy of President Rodrigo "I'd be happy to slaughter them" Duterte of Philippines, who Trump congratulated as doing an "unbelievable job on the drug problem," and Singapore, whose representatives the Trump administration has recently consulted with.
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" Duterte's tongue the least of Obama's Philippine problem 'Systematic failure' A 2012 investigation by the Commission on Human Rights found that from 2005 until 2009, "there was a systematic practice of extrajudicial killings, which can be attributed or attributable to a vigilante group or groups dubbed in the media as the Davao Death Squad.
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Even vaporwave, the visual aesthetic and music genre, is not safe from the "Right Wing Death Squad," although there is a noticeable lack of shitposting; instead, they are earnest, convoluted and wordy, taking as their template the missives of Mencius Moldbug (the 'neoreactionary' theorist and computer engineer known for his controversial views on race and the abolition of democracy).
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Duterte dismisses impeachment complaint as he reignites his brutal war on drugs in the Philippines Duterte dismisses impeachment complaint as he reignites his brutal war on drugs in the Philippines An opposition lawmaker in the Philippines has filed an impeachment complaint against controversial President Rodrigo Duterte, accusing him of crimes ranging from abuse of power to running his own "death squad" when he was mayor of Davao.
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And while Yost and Kyle's prior projects might seem a bit disparate compared to Ragnarok, they seem to be fascinated by the idea of how every civilization's history is full of great men who've kept everyone safe, but not without consequences — the idea that the security our fathers and our fathers' fathers have afforded us has come, like Cyclops sending in a death squad, at someone else's expense.
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Her critique of American foreign policy and Cold War complicity in war crimes is made all the more striking when one considers that the officer who led the death squad that executed her and another who gave the orders had been trained at the School of the Americas, an institution run by the United States that continues to this day to "educate" the military of Latin America despite persistent calls to shut it down.
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There is an awkwardness to the forms and a sense of angst lacing the poses, which subvert and complicate the imagery: "Figura seduta" ("Seated Figure," 1944) grips her hair and crosses her legs tightly, protectively, together; the kneeling "Piccola figura" ("Small Figure," 133–44) clutches her chest and belly as she arches her body back — awestruck, defeated, or emotionally overwhelmed; the hands of "Piccolo nudo" ("Kneeling Nude," 1945) are pulled behind her back as her body bends forward, like a prisoner of a death squad.
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