FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

I am not ready to pounce upon President Rodrigo Duterte over a self-confessed killer’s claims that from 1998 to 2013, the Davao Death Squad killed 1,000 people on orders of the then city mayor of Davao. But I am not ready to brush aside all those allegations without a fair hearing, either. I am willing to grant, purely on the basis of appearances, that DU30 is “unfazed” by Edgar Matobato’s accusations, but I am afraid I cannot echo or endorse my own paper’s banner story on Saturday, that DU30 is “unscathed” by the assassin’s horrifying tale.

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