For 20 years he lived in Davao, a city under the mayoralty of Rodrigo Duterte. The killings that took place shook him, sickened him, and the old sense of outrage flared again. As he recently wrote in an email: “I was the spokesperson of the Coalition Against Summary Execution which monitored these killings and assisted the Commission on Human Rights (headed by Leila de Lima) and the Human Rights Watch to investigate the killings. I also posted the Collated Report of these killings carried out by the Davao Death Squad (1998-2015) which was included in the complaint submitted to the International Criminal Court by Atty. Jude Sabio. I also helped provide sanctuary to former members of the DDS who will be the witnesses in the ICC case. I was one of the convenors of the Network Against Killings in the PhiIippines. I granted interviews to the media — both local and foreign. I have also gone around the country and in the US to give talks on EJK and the Church’s response. I am not surprised that the president is mad at me. Many years before, when I was in Davao, someone warned me that I should be careful because the mayor was angry at me. He lambasted me three times in his TV program “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa.” I was confident at that time that he wouldn’t order the DDS to kill a priest — after all I am not a drug addict or pusher.”