Nov 18, 2021, Rappler Investigative Team MANILA, Philippines Alleged Davao Death Squad members and enablers have become senators, department heads, and leaders in their own offices after Rodrigo Duterte became president When self-confessed former Davao Death Squad (DDS) gunman Arturo Lascañas presented himself to the International Criminal Court, he said he remembered the people whom…
Nov 14, 2021 Inday Espina-Varona MANILA, Philippines PDEA’s raid on a beach party on November 6 also exposes the ties between one of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte’s closest aides and high-value drug personalities President Rodrigo Duterte uprooted his bloody Davao City war against suspected drug users, pushers, and big dealers in 2016, ordering enforcers…
Philippine Daily Inquirer / November 12, 2021 Nothing drives home the dismal reality of the Duterte administration’s failed “war on drugs”—if that point still needs reiterating at this time, over five cautionary years later—than the raid last Saturday by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on a beach party in Davao de Oro,…