Philippines: Duterte Testifies on His Use of Death Squads as Mayor of Davao

This is hardly news.

I actually lived in Davao while Duterte was mayor, and it was widely known he ran death squads. They called them “DDS” (Davao Death Squads).

Not only did Duterte admit to doing this while mayor, he also ran for president on a platform of nationalizing the death squad program.

So the “oh look, he admitted it” thing is bizarre and confusing. He literally campaigned for president on this as his primary platform.

Reuters:

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed a “death squad” existed under his watch to control crime when he was Davao City mayor, but gave conflicting accounts of its makeup, first saying it was run by police officers, then by gangsters.

When Duterte was president, two men including a former policeman had testified before the Senate they were part of an alleged hit squad in Davao they said killed at Duterte’s behest, but legislators at the time found no proof and Duterte’s aides dismissed the claims as fabrication.

Appearing on Monday before a Senate inquiry into his campaign against illegal drugs, Duterte identified “commanders” of the death squad which he said included former national police chief-turned senator Ronaldo dela Rosa, who was also present at the hearing.

“That is the job of the police,” said Duterte, who admitted to senators thousands of criminals died when he was Davao mayor.

He said he had never ordered the death squad to kill defenceless suspects, but did tell the group “to encourage criminals to fight back, and when they fought back, kill them so my problems in the city will be solved.”

People can complain about this, I’m sure. But those people don’t understand the experience of living in a third world narco-state.

It’s obviously better to have laws and courts and state-mandated executions, but when the situation is out of control, what are you supposed to do, if not organize the police into death squads? Duterte’s stated plan was to use the death squads to clean up the country, to provide safety to the people, and then establish a more normal judicial order in the country.

I can attest that in the late 00s in Manila, Cebu, and other major metros in the Philippines, you had to think about crime constantly. You couldn’t walk around at night. Even on a main road, you could get attacked, if you looked like you had something worth taking (being white made you look that way). But in Davao, you could do whatever you want. Walking around drunk at 3AM was fine, you could park your motorcycle on the street and leave it out all night long without fear of losing it.

People deserve safety. It’s the reason countries have governments in the first place. If death squads are the only way to provide safety, that’s what you do.

This agenda is overwhelmingly popular in the Philippines, and it’s only because Duterte threatened a civil war over the current ZOG government refusing to honor the deals he made with the Chinese that he’s being brought up and forced to testify on this issue. He could have just lied about it, but he’s too hardcore for that.

The Philippines is a Sad Case

The Flips is a standard case of what happens when you are aligned with the United States instead of the Chinese.

The Filipinos are just as ingenuous as the Malaysians, but while Malaysia is a developed and prosperous country, the Philippines is a disastrous poverty-riddled narco-state. Malaysians receive hundreds of billions of dollars in investment from the Chinese government, they have partnerships for factories and trade, and so on. The US provides the Philippines with absolutely nothing other than money to start wars with China, while keeping the people in poverty.

Along with cleaning up crime, Duterte’s main agenda was to break the alliance with the US and develop a relationship with China, in order to push for development in the country. However, when he ordered the US troops to leave, they simply refused.

This is because the Philippines is not an independent country, it is a vassal state that, like Germany, Japan, and “South Korea,” is militarily occupied by the United States.

The US typically installs shill governments in the Philippines that will serve US interests, but Duterte was so overwhelmingly popular that he was able to become the nation’s leader. But he had no power to change the way the country was run.

The US is satanic and it causes nothing but suffering around the world. Countries that refused to recognize this reality are all learning the hard way.