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(Eagle News) – A senior police officer earlier tagged by Senate witness Edgar Matobato as being allegedly involved in extrajudicial killings in Davao City, branded Matobato as a liar and that “politics” could be behind him. Senior Police Office 3 Arturo Lascanas angrily denied at the Senate all allegations made by Lascanas against him, including his alleged involvement in the so-called Davao Death Squad. He denied that there was a Davao Death Squad, and […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – More than 22,000 men were arrested in the government’s anti-illegal drug campaign. In the report made by Police Chief Supt. Augusto Marquez of the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management of the Philippine National Police, he said 2,066 were killed in the operations, 1,375 of which were due to legitimate police operations where the suspects resisted arrest and fought with the police. All in all, 22,474 were arrested by the police […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Sixty-seven policemen that are allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade will be transferred to Mindanao. According to NCRPO Chief Supt. Oscar Albayalde, the unnamed policemen are still continuing with their illegal activities despite the government’s anti-drug activities.
(Eagle News) – Two police officials, who had been earlier named by witness Edgar Matobato as being involved in the alleged Davao Death Squad, denied all his allegations claiming that Matobato was a “liar” pointing to specific inconsistencies in the latter’s statements. In the continuation of the Senate hearing on extrajudicial killings, the former head of the Davao Ctiy police’s heinous crime division, retired Supt. Dionisio Abude, and SPO3 Arthur Lascanas who was assigned […]
PASAY CITY, Oct.. 3 — Sen. Grace Poe called for a more proactive public and private collaboration to further strengthen financial education among Filipino youth. “Financial literacy is a tool that can be used to break the cycle of poverty,” Poe said today during the celebration of the Consumer Welfare Month led by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, “We can start with improving the personal financial education of our youth.” The senator said there is a need […]
(Reuters) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologized “profoundly and deeply” to the Jewish community on Sunday (October 2), and said his references to the Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were to hit back at critics who had likened him to Adolf Hitler. Duterte said he recognized the comments made in the early hours of Friday (September 30) had caused outrage among Jewish communities around the world, but he insisted his mention of […]
JOLO, Philippines (AFP)– Islamic militants in the Philippines have freed three Indonesian sailors abducted at sea, officials said, in the latest release by the Abu Sayyaf group after a kidnapping spree in the restive south. The Abu Sayyaf handed over the three men on Jolo island to a major rebel group which then released them to authorities on Sunday, government peace negotiator Jesus Dureza said. “The turnover was smooth and now the three will […]
(Reuters) Abu Sayyaf rebels linked to Islamic State freed three more Indonesian captives on Sunday after a three-month ordeal, the Philippine government said, taking the number of hostages released to nine in the past two weeks. They were handed over in Sulu to Nur Misuari, founder of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a Muslim rebel group that has signed a peace deal with the government. It was not clear whether a ransom was paid. […]
(Eagle News) — What Adolf Hitler did and what President Duterte wants to do to criminals are “two entirely different things,” according to Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella in defense of the President’s remarks making reference to the Holocaust in his war against illegal drugs. The remark that triggered outrage in the German and Jewish community prompted Malacanang to release a statement early Saturday, around 1:30 a.m., to clarify the latest controversial utterances of the […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed his pronouncement that this October’s Philippine-United States military exercises would be the last under his presidency. “In my term, yes. I don’t know if that treaty would take some form. But in my term, yes. I would not be using my entitlements as commander-in-chief. I would simply say that that is the foreign policy,” Duterte affirmed in a news conference. Duterte pointed out there was no cooperation between the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa expressed his desire to demolish the New Bilibid Prison as he believes that this is the only way to totally suppress the illegal drug trade and operations inside the national penitentiary According to Dela Rosa, the inmates already intimately know the ins and outs of the NBP. They also know how to hide illegal drugs and other contraband every time the PNP […]
(Eagle News)– To “save the next generation,” President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday (September 30) said he wants the death of the country’s criminals, citing what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews during World War II. “Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now, there are three million drug addicts… I’d be happy to slaughter them,” Duterte said. “At least if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have… You know my victims, I would like to be, all […]
