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Philippines President Murdered an Official, Hitman Tells Senate 

Investigations are on in the alleged extrajudicial killings in Duterte’s anti-crime crackdown.

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In explosive allegations against the Philippine president, a former death squad member, Edgar Matobato told the country’s parliament that Rodrigo Duterte shot dead a justice department employee and ordered the murder of opponents.

The self-described assassin told the Senate hearing that he and a group of policemen and ex-communist rebels killed about 1,000 people over 25 years on Duterte’s orders. The crimes were such that they even fed one of the victims alive to a crocodile.

The others, he revealed were garroted, burned, quartered and then buried at a quarry owned by a police officer who was a member of the death squad. Others were dumped at sea to be eaten by fish.

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The allegations were made before the Senate which is investigating alleged extrajudicial killings in Duterte’s anti-crime crackdown that police say have left 3,140 people dead in his first 72 days in office.

The then head of the Commission of Human Rights, Senator Leila de Lima, told the inquiry Matobato had surrendered to the investigatory body in 2009 and had until recently been in a witness protection scheme.

Duterte’s spokesman however said the allegations had already been investigated without charges being filed. His son, Paolo Duterte called the testimony “mere hearsay” of “a madman”.

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Topics:  Crime   Police   Phillipines 

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