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Within the first 24 hours of the raid, one KOJC member died from a heart attack. Former president Rodrigo Duterte and incumbent vice president Sara Duterte expressed negative sentiments toward the raid, with the latter attending a KOJC-organized event within the compound and separately suggesting that the PNP's "extraordinary" actions were ...
Rodrigo Duterte assumed office as President of the Philippines on June 30, 2016, and his term ended on June 30, 2022. On May 31, 2016, a few weeks before his presidential inauguration, Duterte named his Cabinet members, [8] which comprised a diverse selection of former military generals, childhood friends, classmates, and leftists. [9]
Human rights groups documented about 1,400 suspicious killings in Davao during the 22 years Duterte was mayor and critics say the war on drugs he unleashed when he became president in 2016 bore ...
Death squads and a war on drugs. Duterte soared to power on a promise to replicate on a national scale his anti-crime crackdown in the family’s stronghold of Davao, winning the 2016 presidential ...
Duterte himself watched the viral video of the shooting. Senator Bong Go said that Duterte was angered at the incident. [28] Malacañang vowed to bring justice for the victims of the shooting. [29] On the same day, Duterte ordered the PNP to make sure that the suspect face punishment. The president characterized Nuezca as "sick in the head". [30]
On August 30, 2024, Duterte visited the wake of a KOJC member who died from a heart attack while manning a watchtower during the first day of the police raid. [253] Two days later, Duterte attended the KOJC's 39th anniversary event at the compound where she reiterated her support for the church organization and apology for supporting Marcos. [254]
Wesley Barayuga was a former police officer who held the rank of police brigadier. [3] He attended the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in 1983 as part of Matikas class. He is a graduate of University of San Agustin in Iloilo City where he obtained a law degree in 1996. [4]
In November 2021, former Davao police investigator and self-confessed member of the Duterte Death Squad (DDS), Arturo Lascanas, gave an affidavit to the International Criminal Court (ICC), and pointed that Chinese businessmen who were close to then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, Charlie Tan, Sammy Uy, and Michael Yang, were involved in drugs smuggling ...