Today's Inquirer front page (Dec. 19, 2024).
“HOUSE TAGS DUTERTE, ET AL FOR CRIMES VS HUMANITY”
More at inq.news/plusfront. 📰 #INQFrontPage
#DavaoDeathSquad
“HOUSE TAGS DUTERTE, ET AL FOR CRIMES VS HUMANITY”
More at inq.news/plusfront. 📰 #INQFrontPage
#DavaoDeathSquad
December 18, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Today's Inquirer front page (Dec. 19, 2024).
“HOUSE TAGS DUTERTE, ET AL FOR CRIMES VS HUMANITY”
More at inq.news/plusfront. 📰 #INQFrontPage
#DavaoDeathSquad
“HOUSE TAGS DUTERTE, ET AL FOR CRIMES VS HUMANITY”
More at inq.news/plusfront. 📰 #INQFrontPage
#DavaoDeathSquad
“While he had been waiting for years to testify before the International Criminal Court (ICC), Matobato said he would not seek immunity in exchange for his testimony.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad
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January 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“While he had been waiting for years to testify before the International Criminal Court (ICC), Matobato said he would not seek immunity in exchange for his testimony.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad 🤝🏽 Duterte Double Standards
“Yet, when his close allies or well-connected associates come under fire, Duterte’s merciless approach softens into a kind of leniency, showing that in his justice system, some are more untouchable than others.”
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“Yet, when his close allies or well-connected associates come under fire, Duterte’s merciless approach softens into a kind of leniency, showing that in his justice system, some are more untouchable than others.”
opinion.inquirer.net/178489/duter...
November 19, 2024 at 5:11 AM
#DavaoDeathSquad 🤝🏽 Duterte Double Standards
“Yet, when his close allies or well-connected associates come under fire, Duterte’s merciless approach softens into a kind of leniency, showing that in his justice system, some are more untouchable than others.”
opinion.inquirer.net/178489/duter...
“Yet, when his close allies or well-connected associates come under fire, Duterte’s merciless approach softens into a kind of leniency, showing that in his justice system, some are more untouchable than others.”
opinion.inquirer.net/178489/duter...
“The lawyer for the victims was right: something happened to us as a people. Many who were once peace-loving Filipinos were slowly shaped into clones of their idol. They became mirrors of the very violence they were witnessing,” David added.
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
February 27, 2026 at 6:11 AM
“The lawyer for the victims was right: something happened to us as a people. Many who were once peace-loving Filipinos were slowly shaped into clones of their idol. They became mirrors of the very violence they were witnessing,” David added.
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
In 2002, @pcij.bsky.social asked me to report on the rise of then Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte's #DavaoDeathSquad, whose violent anti-crime methods became the template for his "drug war" across the Philippines starting in 2016 when he became president. He's now in the ICC for crimes vs humanity.
March 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In 2002, @pcij.bsky.social asked me to report on the rise of then Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte's #DavaoDeathSquad, whose violent anti-crime methods became the template for his "drug war" across the Philippines starting in 2016 when he became president. He's now in the ICC for crimes vs humanity.
This is giving me Duterte flashbacks when Sal Panelo and Harry Roque would ‘interpret’ Duterte’s public confessions.
Duterte: “They are saying that I’m part of a death squad? True, that’s true.”
Panelo and Roque:
“Hyperbole.”
“He was just joking.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
Duterte: “They are saying that I’m part of a death squad? True, that’s true.”
Panelo and Roque:
“Hyperbole.”
“He was just joking.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
May 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is giving me Duterte flashbacks when Sal Panelo and Harry Roque would ‘interpret’ Duterte’s public confessions.
Duterte: “They are saying that I’m part of a death squad? True, that’s true.”
Panelo and Roque:
“Hyperbole.”
“He was just joking.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
Duterte: “They are saying that I’m part of a death squad? True, that’s true.”
Panelo and Roque:
“Hyperbole.”
“He was just joking.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
“According to de Lima, Matobato left the Philippines "under an assumed name" and is now in the custody of the ICC after his testimony was vetted by the tribunal.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad
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January 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“According to de Lima, Matobato left the Philippines "under an assumed name" and is now in the custody of the ICC after his testimony was vetted by the tribunal.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad
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@inquirer.net: ICC UNSEALS BATO ARREST WARRANT
READ: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has unsealed the 16-page warrant of arrest against Senator dela Rosa and can now be accessed by the public: icc-cpi.int/court-record...
READ MORE: inqnews.net/BatoWarrantC...
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
READ: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has unsealed the 16-page warrant of arrest against Senator dela Rosa and can now be accessed by the public: icc-cpi.int/court-record...
READ MORE: inqnews.net/BatoWarrantC...
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
May 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
@inquirer.net: ICC UNSEALS BATO ARREST WARRANT
READ: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has unsealed the 16-page warrant of arrest against Senator dela Rosa and can now be accessed by the public: icc-cpi.int/court-record...
READ MORE: inqnews.net/BatoWarrantC...
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
READ: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has unsealed the 16-page warrant of arrest against Senator dela Rosa and can now be accessed by the public: icc-cpi.int/court-record...
READ MORE: inqnews.net/BatoWarrantC...
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
What a timeline of Aguirre’s cover up of Duterte, the #DavaoDeathSquad and his cronies.
“In February 2017, one of Aguirre’s first acts as justice secretary was to execute the will of Duterte to exact vengeance on senator Leila de Lima for exposing the Davao Death Squad in 2009.”
“In February 2017, one of Aguirre’s first acts as justice secretary was to execute the will of Duterte to exact vengeance on senator Leila de Lima for exposing the Davao Death Squad in 2009.”
Why did the Quadcomm not summon Vitaliano Aguirre?
COMMENTARY: Vitaliano Aguirre was one of Rodrigo Duterte’s major henchmen. What exactly does a henchman do? He serves by way of his boss’s crime and violence.
verafiles.org
December 12, 2024 at 2:35 AM
What a timeline of Aguirre’s cover up of Duterte, the #DavaoDeathSquad and his cronies.
“In February 2017, one of Aguirre’s first acts as justice secretary was to execute the will of Duterte to exact vengeance on senator Leila de Lima for exposing the Davao Death Squad in 2009.”
“In February 2017, one of Aguirre’s first acts as justice secretary was to execute the will of Duterte to exact vengeance on senator Leila de Lima for exposing the Davao Death Squad in 2009.”
“They wanted him to confess to the killing of Richard King, a wealthy Cebuano businessman who had recently been shot in a Davao office building. Matobato believed the killing was orchestrated by the police and death squad working together, and he was to be their fall guy.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DavaoDeathSquad
Edgar Matobato: Exiting a death squad
Edgar Matobato's greatest fear, he says, more than death itself, was dying before speaking out
www.rappler.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“They wanted him to confess to the killing of Richard King, a wealthy Cebuano businessman who had recently been shot in a Davao office building. Matobato believed the killing was orchestrated by the police and death squad working together, and he was to be their fall guy.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DavaoDeathSquad
2) “Duterte’s alleged involvement in briefing a witness due to testify before the Philippines Senate’s inquiry into the #DavaoDeathSquad, as well as threatening and taking retaliatory actions against individuals opposed to him.”
#tokhang
#DuterteLegacy
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#tokhang
#DuterteLegacy
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October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
2) “Duterte’s alleged involvement in briefing a witness due to testify before the Philippines Senate’s inquiry into the #DavaoDeathSquad, as well as threatening and taking retaliatory actions against individuals opposed to him.”
#tokhang
#DuterteLegacy
www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/...
#tokhang
#DuterteLegacy
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“Even if he is imprisoned very far from here, I feel so happy that this day finally came,” Alia said, stifling a sob. “I’m so thankful. I’ve been asking God for this day.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#JailDuterte
#DavaoDeathSquad
#JailDuterte
Davao mother who lost 4 sons greets Duterte arrest in tears
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Clarita Alia burst into tears upon learning that former President Rodrigo Duterte had been arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be
newsinfo.inquirer.net
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Even if he is imprisoned very far from here, I feel so happy that this day finally came,” Alia said, stifling a sob. “I’m so thankful. I’ve been asking God for this day.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#JailDuterte
#DavaoDeathSquad
#JailDuterte
May bagong lawyer na yung demonyo ng #DavaoDeathSquad.
He added that the defense team had met with Duterte, who “documented both Mr Duterte’s release of Counsel from his representation and his desire to hire a replacement.”
#DutertePanagutin
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He added that the defense team had met with Duterte, who “documented both Mr Duterte’s release of Counsel from his representation and his desire to hire a replacement.”
#DutertePanagutin
www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/...
May 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
May bagong lawyer na yung demonyo ng #DavaoDeathSquad.
He added that the defense team had met with Duterte, who “documented both Mr Duterte’s release of Counsel from his representation and his desire to hire a replacement.”
#DutertePanagutin
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He added that the defense team had met with Duterte, who “documented both Mr Duterte’s release of Counsel from his representation and his desire to hire a replacement.”
#DutertePanagutin
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…The charges before you today are serious, and the evidence submitted required their confirmation. And Mr. Duterte must be held to account, and this case should be confirmed for trial,” he added.
#DutertePanagutin
#DavaoDeathSquad
www.philstar.com/headlines/20...
#DutertePanagutin
#DavaoDeathSquad
www.philstar.com/headlines/20...
February 24, 2026 at 8:39 AM
…The charges before you today are serious, and the evidence submitted required their confirmation. And Mr. Duterte must be held to account, and this case should be confirmed for trial,” he added.
#DutertePanagutin
#DavaoDeathSquad
www.philstar.com/headlines/20...
#DutertePanagutin
#DavaoDeathSquad
www.philstar.com/headlines/20...
“Guban recanted his statements and said he was threatened to make such claims by Davao City Rep. Paolo "Pulong" Duterte, Mans Carpio, Michael Yang, and journalist Paul Gutierrez.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad
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November 8, 2024 at 11:28 AM
“Guban recanted his statements and said he was threatened to make such claims by Davao City Rep. Paolo "Pulong" Duterte, Mans Carpio, Michael Yang, and journalist Paul Gutierrez.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad
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PhilStarNews:
Cardinal Pablo David: “Perhaps the most painful part was not the words of the accused; it was the applause of his audience, the kind of people who voted him into power. The laughter. The approval. The cheering crowds.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
Cardinal Pablo David: “Perhaps the most painful part was not the words of the accused; it was the applause of his audience, the kind of people who voted him into power. The laughter. The approval. The cheering crowds.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
February 27, 2026 at 6:11 AM
PhilStarNews:
Cardinal Pablo David: “Perhaps the most painful part was not the words of the accused; it was the applause of his audience, the kind of people who voted him into power. The laughter. The approval. The cheering crowds.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
Cardinal Pablo David: “Perhaps the most painful part was not the words of the accused; it was the applause of his audience, the kind of people who voted him into power. The laughter. The approval. The cheering crowds.”
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DutertePanagutin
As chair of the CHR in 2009, De Lima had held hearings in #Davao, vowing to end vigilante-style killings. She and her team began exhuming bodies buried in the Laud quarry but could not proceed because a Davao judge denied them a search warrant. #DavaoDeathSquad
January 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
As chair of the CHR in 2009, De Lima had held hearings in #Davao, vowing to end vigilante-style killings. She and her team began exhuming bodies buried in the Laud quarry but could not proceed because a Davao judge denied them a search warrant. #DavaoDeathSquad
“Former PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) deputy director general Ismael Fajardo died. Captain Lito Perote, agent Ernan Abario who is my colleague in Customs is also dead. Two of my men also turned up dead,” Guban told House members.
#DavaoDeathSquad
www.onenews.ph/articles/dav...
#DavaoDeathSquad
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November 8, 2024 at 12:07 PM
“Former PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) deputy director general Ismael Fajardo died. Captain Lito Perote, agent Ernan Abario who is my colleague in Customs is also dead. Two of my men also turned up dead,” Guban told House members.
#DavaoDeathSquad
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#DavaoDeathSquad
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verafiles.ph: From denying the existence of the #DavaoDeathSquad (DDS) when he was mayor of Davao City, former president Rodrigo Duterte said that former Davao police officers present in the Oct. 28 Senate probe on his administration’s drug war were commanders of the DDS. vera.ph/3Z8jtUb
#tokhang
#tokhang
FACT CHECK: Duterte somersaults on ‘non-existence’ of Davao Death Squad
From denying the existence of the Davao Death Squad (DDS) when he was mayor of Davao City, former president Rodrigo Duterte said that former Davao police officers present in the Oct. 28 Senate probe o...
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November 15, 2024 at 8:44 AM
verafiles.ph: From denying the existence of the #DavaoDeathSquad (DDS) when he was mayor of Davao City, former president Rodrigo Duterte said that former Davao police officers present in the Oct. 28 Senate probe on his administration’s drug war were commanders of the DDS. vera.ph/3Z8jtUb
#tokhang
#tokhang
“He warned that invoking due process to prolong historical injustices is a severe insult to the deceased and trivializes the immense agony of the families left behind.“
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
No sanctuary: Why SC denied Sen. dela Rosa’s TRO bid
(INQUIRER file photo / NINO JESUS ORBETA)
MANILA, Philippines - Concurring magistrates in the denial of a restraining order sought by Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa highlighted a fierce
globalnation.inquirer.net
May 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“He warned that invoking due process to prolong historical injustices is a severe insult to the deceased and trivializes the immense agony of the families left behind.“
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
“According to Caguioa, the plea for immediate judicial relief must be viewed directly against the country’s recent history of impunity that forced victims of the war on drugs to seek recourse with an international court in the first place.”
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
No sanctuary: Why SC denied Sen. dela Rosa’s TRO bid
(INQUIRER file photo / NINO JESUS ORBETA)
MANILA, Philippines - Concurring magistrates in the denial of a restraining order sought by Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa highlighted a fierce
globalnation.inquirer.net
May 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“According to Caguioa, the plea for immediate judicial relief must be viewed directly against the country’s recent history of impunity that forced victims of the war on drugs to seek recourse with an international court in the first place.”
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
The beatings were brutal. Matobato lost hearing in his right ear and suffered a fractured chest bone. One evening, a rifle barrel was thrust into his buttocks; he was hit so hard he nearly passed out. He was released the next day on the intercession of his uncle, a retired police. #DavaoDeathSquad
Edgar Matobato: Exiting a death squad
Edgar Matobato's greatest fear, he says, more than death itself, was dying before speaking out
www.rappler.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The beatings were brutal. Matobato lost hearing in his right ear and suffered a fractured chest bone. One evening, a rifle barrel was thrust into his buttocks; he was hit so hard he nearly passed out. He was released the next day on the intercession of his uncle, a retired police. #DavaoDeathSquad
“The Court should not come to the rescue of an individual, a public office no less, who is charged with mass murder, and who is being brought before the ICC to face the consequences of his actions that flouted the rule of law with impuinity,” Caguioa said.
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
No sanctuary: Why SC denied Sen. dela Rosa’s TRO bid
(INQUIRER file photo / NINO JESUS ORBETA)
MANILA, Philippines - Concurring magistrates in the denial of a restraining order sought by Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa highlighted a fierce
globalnation.inquirer.net
May 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“The Court should not come to the rescue of an individual, a public office no less, who is charged with mass murder, and who is being brought before the ICC to face the consequences of his actions that flouted the rule of law with impuinity,” Caguioa said.
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
#ArrestBato
#DavaoDeathSquad
#tokhang
‘I AM AFRAID FOR MY LIFE’
“He needed someone capable of implementing the war on drugs on a national level, replicating the Davao model.”
- Royina Garma sa ikawalong House quad committee hearing tungkol sa drug-related extrajudicial killings (EJKs) noong Duterte administration.
#DavaoDeathSquad
“He needed someone capable of implementing the war on drugs on a national level, replicating the Davao model.”
- Royina Garma sa ikawalong House quad committee hearing tungkol sa drug-related extrajudicial killings (EJKs) noong Duterte administration.
#DavaoDeathSquad
‘Davao model’ reward system sa war on drugs noong Duterte admin, ibinunyag ni Royina Garma
YouTube video by Philippine STAR
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October 13, 2024 at 11:50 AM
‘I AM AFRAID FOR MY LIFE’
“He needed someone capable of implementing the war on drugs on a national level, replicating the Davao model.”
- Royina Garma sa ikawalong House quad committee hearing tungkol sa drug-related extrajudicial killings (EJKs) noong Duterte administration.
#DavaoDeathSquad
“He needed someone capable of implementing the war on drugs on a national level, replicating the Davao model.”
- Royina Garma sa ikawalong House quad committee hearing tungkol sa drug-related extrajudicial killings (EJKs) noong Duterte administration.
#DavaoDeathSquad
GMANEWS:
'TIME FOR DUTERTE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CRIMES HE BRAGS ABOUT'
- ICC Prosecutor Julian Nicholls in his closing statement
youtube.com/watch?v=tr5O...
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DuterteLegacy
#DutertePanagutin
'TIME FOR DUTERTE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CRIMES HE BRAGS ABOUT'
- ICC Prosecutor Julian Nicholls in his closing statement
youtube.com/watch?v=tr5O...
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DuterteLegacy
#DutertePanagutin
February 28, 2026 at 3:09 AM
GMANEWS:
'TIME FOR DUTERTE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CRIMES HE BRAGS ABOUT'
- ICC Prosecutor Julian Nicholls in his closing statement
youtube.com/watch?v=tr5O...
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DuterteLegacy
#DutertePanagutin
'TIME FOR DUTERTE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CRIMES HE BRAGS ABOUT'
- ICC Prosecutor Julian Nicholls in his closing statement
youtube.com/watch?v=tr5O...
#DavaoDeathSquad
#DuterteLegacy
#DutertePanagutin