Tag: SPO3 Arthur Lascanas

Cayetano: Human Rights Watch ‘License to kill’ report ‘not an unbiased’ source of info

(Eagle News) — Senator Alan Peter Cayetano called the Human Rights Watch a biased source of information on Monday, saying the group concluded drug suspects were being executed extrajudicially even if it only interviewed 24 of the 7,000 drug cases in the country. “HRW did not interview any of the (Philippine National Police officials),” the senator added during the Senate inquiry into the alleged killings of the so-called Davao Death Squad. Cayetano was referring to the 80-page report titled […]

Duterte: I saw Lascañas only ‘once, twice a year’

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted to knowing SP03 Arthur Lascañas, the retired policeman who flip-flopped on his initial testimony and now says the highest chief executive had a hand in the creation of a supposed Davao Death Squad. “As a policeman, yes,” Duterte said when asked in an ambush interview  if he knew the retired policeman. Duterte clarified, however, that he only saw Lascañas “once, twice a year.” “I give the orders […]