00:00While a tricycle was in the middle of the National Highway in Tulunan, Cotabato, it slowly slid to the coast.
00:09The tricycle fell to the side of the road and spun.
00:13Motorists helped the tricycle driver.
00:16According to the barangay captain, La Esperanza, the tricycle driver suffered minor injuries.
00:21He was either drunk or drunk at that time.
00:24He has no explanation.
00:27In the face of former President Rodrigo Duterte in the Senate hearing on the drug war,
00:32he admitted that he has a death squad.
00:34But he did not order the police to kill those involved in illegal drugs.
00:38Here is my report.
00:43I have a death squad, but not the police.
00:51They are also the gangsters.
00:54I ordered one gangster to be killed.
00:58If you don't kill him, I will kill you now.
01:02This is the confession of former President Rodrigo Duterte about the Davao Death Squad
01:06when he faced the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigating his war against drugs.
01:11You mentioned that you have your own hit squad.
01:15Is that what you're trying to tell us so we won't get confused?
01:19I mean, can we be very clear?
01:22It's not a hit squad.
01:24This is a direct statement.
01:28It's not a hit squad.
01:31As long as the people in Davao know that I'm there,
01:35and you commit a heinous crime,
01:39and no one can go to the aggravated person,
01:46that's me.
01:47Is there a reward for those 7 people who were killed?
01:51No, ma'am.
01:52The rich people in Davao have a lot of money.
01:57What is the connection between the rich people in Davao and the members of the Death Squad?
02:02Because they want their city to be safe.
02:05Because they want business to thrive.
02:09Duterte is very envious.
02:10As the President, he did not order the police to kill those involved in drugs.
02:14Call of duty of the President.
02:18That's me.
02:19Because I was the President at the time.
02:23And I did not call, Mr. Senator.
02:30I warned all Filipinos.
02:36If you are involved in drugs,
02:40let it go. Drop it.
02:44Because we will have problems.
02:47There were killings,
02:49but it was not state-sponsored killings.
02:55But Duterte said, he ordered the police to kill the criminals involved in the fight.
03:00He also instructed the former police generals who came as part of the Death Squad.
03:05All of these on my right side,
03:10were led by the Chief of Police, the Police Director.
03:19All of them were commanders of the Death Squad.
03:24Senator de la Rosa,
03:27that's the Death Squad.
03:31Because they were police directors
03:34handling the controlling crimes in the city.
03:43So when you say Death Squad,
03:47it's a very loose term.
03:49I mind very much me being associated with the DDS
03:53because during that time when I was the City Director of Davao,
03:57it was really a problem for us,
03:59especially the unsolved killings.
04:02I think he's just joking, sir.
04:04There's nothing to say that you killed him.
04:08So it's just a matter of taking things on your hand.
04:12We know how President Duterte tells stories.
04:16When he said that Bato de la Rosa is a Death Squad,
04:23I was 100% sure that he was joking.
04:26In fact, he replied afterwards,
04:29he said that the police are not on his side.
04:32You said that you encouraged the PNP
04:36to encourage the suspect to fight
04:39so that he can be killed, so that he can say, fight.
04:42Correct.
04:43Correct.
04:44This is very incorrect.
04:46Correct. Yes.
04:48If I go back, sir, I will do it again.
04:52Double.
04:54Duterte was also in front of the hearing.
04:56Former Senator Laila Drima,
04:58one of the five children of those who died under the Duterte drug war.
05:01Duterte said that he will not apologize
05:04even though he promises responsibility for the campaign.
05:07Do not question my policies
05:11because I offer no apologies,
05:16no excuses.
05:19I did what I had to do.
05:23And whether you believe it or not,
05:26I did it for my country,
05:31for all of its successes and shortcomings.
05:37I, and I alone,
05:41take full legal responsibility.
05:46I will be held accountable.
05:48And I will be jailed.
05:50I will be jailed.
05:51Do not follow my orders.
05:54It is a pity.
05:55I am just working.
05:58He was inducing,
06:01encouraging the killings.
06:04And it cannot just be purely rhetoric
06:08because he followed what he said.
06:13He followed what he said that those should be killed.
06:18Whether they fight or not.
06:20I think that's too much to say that everyone fought.
06:25We don't even have the death penalty.
06:28There is no honor in punishment like tokhang.
06:32It should not be an honor to be called the punisher
06:36when thousands of innocent people,
06:39including babies, have died in your name.
06:43The war on drugs will never be glorified by the Filipinos.
07:06My brother, the President, was assassinated.
07:09Where did it happen?
07:11We haven't gotten justice yet.
07:16We won the RTC.
07:19There is a DANYOS case.
07:20We haven't gotten justice yet.
07:22The discussion was heated by the direct question of the former President
07:25if he accepts the full responsibility for the death of Kian
07:28and some other people who were killed in the war on drugs.
07:31The police took full responsibility.
07:34Yes, and what about the result of the police
07:36that thousands of people were killed,
07:38including Kian De Los Santos?
07:39Do you also take full responsibility for that, Mr. Chair?
07:43No.
07:45How about Carl Anthony Nunez?
07:49Before you ramble on those many things.
07:51No, no, no. I'm not rambling, Mr. Chair.
07:53My questions are very specific.
07:55No, the law is specific.
07:56Guilt is personal.
08:00Ask the lawyer first.
08:01It's okay. I can ask the lawyer.
08:04Go ahead.
08:05Ask him first before we proceed.
08:07No, no, no.
08:08I already prepared these questions with my legislative staff.
08:11Guilt is personal.
08:12Yes, it's very personal.
08:14You can't pass that to others.
08:16No, no, no. This is not passing.
08:18Blue Ribbon is investigating the war on drugs
08:21and the result of extrajudicial killings there.
08:24Now, let me ask you about Carl Anthony Nunez.
08:27Do you take responsibility for his death?
08:30You didn't get the policy of the President.
08:34I got it. I'm also a policymaker.
08:36I was talking about the policy.
08:38I take full responsibility for what I said about the war on drugs.
08:44You said, sir, you can hold me responsible for any death.
08:48But if you get involved in a specific crime,
08:50Yes, sir. You spoke about specific crimes.
08:53And if I say I will take full responsibility,
08:57when we go to court, they won't accept that.
09:02Well, Mr. Chair, and if the resource person could keep his volume
09:06and pitch to a normal level.
09:09Mr. Chair, you are pinned down by your own statements of October.
09:15No, no, no, Mr. Chair.
09:17I'm not trying to pin you down on air.
09:21Mr. Chair, do not pin me down on semantics.
09:26Retired Col. Ruina Garma, who has a good reward system for the police,
09:30was also praised for carrying out the drug war.
09:33I will answer you this.
09:35Why should I pay them? That's their job.
09:38Former Mandaluyong Police Chief, Col. Hector Grijaldo, also agreed to the hearing.
09:42He said, he was ordered by the House Squad Committee to confirm the so-called reward system.
09:47If Dan Fernandez put the paper he was holding on the table and told me,
09:54this is what you will say in this statement.
09:57This is the supplemental statement of Col. Garma.
10:01Tell me that you know the reward system.
10:05Just confirm it.
10:08They want to lie to me, Your Honor.
10:12Congressman Dan Fernandez and Benny Abante could deny this.
10:17Fernandez called the statement of Grijaldo a lie.
10:20According to Fernandez, Grijaldo was called because according to Garma,
10:24he can support his statement about the reward system.
10:27But Grijaldo did not force him to say that he does not know about this.
10:31Abante said that he did not force him to sign any affidavit in exchange for the possibility of promotion.
10:37In the Senate hearing, Ermina Espino alias Mooking also denied the allegation of Garma
10:43that when Espino was the Assistant Secretary of the Presidential Management Staff,
10:46she was the one who issued the fund for Pabuya.
10:49Some former PNP chiefs in the Duterte administration, including Senator Bato de la Rosa,
10:54were denied the briefing between them and former Col. Edelberto Leonardo
10:59about the drug situation of the country before they became chiefs of police.
11:03Rafi Tima reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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