RACHEL A.G. REYES
RACHEL A.G. REYES

Edgar Matobato claims to have worked for 24 years as an assassin for the Davao Death Squad, the vigilante group believed responsible for the murder of 1,000 suspected criminals since its creation in the late 1980s. He claims to have heard Rodrigo Duterte, then Davao City Mayor and allegedly the force behind the squad in which police, former rebels and civilians were involved, personally order some of the killings. He says he witnessed Duterte using an Uzi submachine gun to kill a National Bureau of Investigation agent. He claims to have been involved in the killing of some 50 people. He says he was instructed to “kill criminals every day.”

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