BY ROGER M. BALANZA
What is the reaction of Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to the Wikileaks expose about his alleged involvement in the Davao Death Squad, (DDS) blamed for hundreds of killings of suspectede criminals in Davao City?
So be it, said Duterte on television on Sunday.
Wikileaks is a populat website posting sensitive information on government dealings most of them classified.
In a recent post, the website reported on Duterte’s involvement in the death squad from documents purportedly sourced from the US embassy in Manila.
Duterte had been probed for the killings by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights for his alleged “tolerance” of the extra-judicial executions; and sanctioned by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Duterte had disowned role in the DDS, lamenting that his public warning against criminals about being summarily executed in his city was taken as fact of his link to the killings.
In the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa television program on ABS/CBN, Duterte came short of admitting his role in the killings of suspected drug lords in the city.
” I don’t want the druglords to kill me first,”he said.
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PUBLISHED IN THE DURIAN POST NO.77, September 12-18, 2011
the US embassy in Manila.
PUBLISHED IN THE DURIAN POST NO.77, September 12-18, 2011
