A Call With a Killer
▻https://theintercept.com/series/a-call-with-a-killer
It was enormously controversial that President Trump placed a friendly call to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte in April. Now, we can read what they said.
A Call With a Killer
▻https://theintercept.com/series/a-call-with-a-killer
It was enormously controversial that President Trump placed a friendly call to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte in April. Now, we can read what they said.
Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/02/philippines-president-duterte-drugs-war-death-squads
As far as opposition senator Antonio Trillanes is concerned, Duterte’s death squad problem is not going away – in fact, he is doing his best to make sure it doesn’t. With his ties to the military, Trillanes is coordinating the protection of Lascanas, and says he is facilitating at least four other supposed DDS members to come forward in the coming months.
Trillanes, a former navy lieutenant, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for leading the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, when he and some 300 junior officers and enlisted men took over the Oakwood towers in Makati (Manila’s business district) as protest for alleged rampant corruption in the government of then president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He subsequently won a senate seat in 2007 while incarcerated. He says he is on a mission to have Duterte impeached. It was an ally of Trillanes who filed an impeachment complaint in the Philippine House of Representatives last month. The House, now in recess, will reconvene on 2 May.
That is, he believes, enough time for the “game-changing” details of the DDS to trickle down and sway public opinion. “There is a consensus that they [the revelations] are quite different. To kill criminals is one thing, but knowing that Duterte killed, or ordered to be killed a four-year-old child and a pregnant woman, is an entirely different matter. That changes the narrative.”