Phillipine's President, Duterte, now being targeted for coup

They will use any tactic possible to get him out of office before he kicks U.S. troops out of the Phillipines.

"Mr. Duterte has denied involvement with the Davao Death Squad, but Matobato told Thursday’s Senate inquiry that he and other members of the liquidation squad took orders from him and killed about 1,000 suspected criminals and opponents of Mr. Duterte and his family.

Matobato admitted to carrying out about 50 of the abductions and deadly assaults, including the attack on a suspected kidnapper who was fed alive to a crocodile in 2007.

“Our job was to kill criminals like drug pushers, rapists, snatchers. That’s what we did. We killed people almost every day,” he said.



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