Ex-policeman says behind 200 killings in Philippine death squad under Duterte
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MANILA -- A retired policeman testified before a Philippine Senate hearing on Monday to killing nearly 200 people as part of a "death squad" under President Rodrigo Duterte when Duterte was Davao City mayor, and said he came clean because of his "fear of God".
Arturo Lascanas admitted to lying in October during a Senate inquiry into alleged extrajudicial killings linked to Duterte, but said he did so only because he feared for his family's safety and because police had warned him to "deny everything".
He said he had personally killed 300 people, about 200 as a member of a "Davao death squad", with his last in 2015. He also detailed two cases where he had murdered critics of Duterte, under the instruction of the then-mayor's bodyguard.
