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Duterte arrives at House for quad comm inquiry

Duterte arrives at House for quad comm inquiry

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Updated Nov 13, 2024 12:22 PM PHT

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Former President Rodrigo Duterte testifies at the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on extrajudicial killings, addressing alleged human rights violations from his administration’s war on drugs on October 28, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File  


MANILA — Former President Rodrigo Duterte showed up Wednesday at the House of Representatives for the resumption of the quad committee’s inquiry into killings in his war on drugs. 


Duterte will “confront” the quad committee on initial changes in the hearing schedule, his former spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Tuesday. 

 


The quad comm initially announced that it would postpone the hearing to November 21. But it said Wednesday that the hearing would push through after Duterte committed to show up. 




Duterte's critic, former Senator Leila De Lima, and the families of those killed in the anti-narcotics crackdown were also set to attend the probe.   


Police said the campaign left more than 6,000 people dead, but rights groups estimate tens of thousands of mostly poor men were killed by officers and vigilantes, often without proof they were linked to drugs.


  
  


In previous quad comm hearings, former police official Royina Garma claimed Duterte had sanctioned a cash reward system for the deaths of drug suspects.


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Duterte denied Garma's allegations.

"Walang pulis na papasok na ganon. Makukulong sila. Why would they accept that kind of agreement when it will later on bring their downfall. Walang reward 'yan. Hindi ako nagbibigay ng reward," he said in a Sonshine Media News International (SMNI) program.

During the anti-drug campaign he launched shortly after taking office in 2016, Duterte ordered police to shoot dead suspects if officers believed their lives were in danger.

While the crackdown has been widely condemned and sparked an international investigation, only nine police officers have been convicted for killing drug suspects.

The drug war has continued under Duterte's successor, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., though he has pushed for more emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation.

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While the current and former president have had a bitter falling out, Marcos has stressed his government will not cooperate with the  International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating allegations that the killings were a state-sanctioned "crime against humanity". 

The Philippines quit the ICC in 2019 on Duterte's instructions, but the tribunal has said it has jurisdiction over killings before the pullout, as well as killings in Davao City when Duterte was mayor there, years before he became president.


— With a report from Agence France-Presse 




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