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DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) Mayor Rodrigo Duterte likes to regale his guests with the story of how, one time, using a piece of firewood, he crushed the hands of a man accused of stealing hand-held radios. The problem with the story, as the mayor himself would tell his visitors, is that he had actually punished the wrong man.
Duterte laughed out loud when he narrated this story one evening last week, during dinner with friends and journalists. He used the story to drive home the point that he hates thieves and criminals with passion.
The irony was apparently lost on him. To his critics, however, this story illustrates perfectly what is so wrong with Dutertes obsession with ridding the city of criminals using what has been described by the mayors critics as criminal methods. Because he sidesteps due process, they say, he is bound to make mistakes sooner or later.
Indeed, according to the Coalition Against Summary Executions (CASE), an alliance of human rights and child advocates in the city, 12 of the 469 murdered by death squads or hired killers here from 1998 until 2005 had been cases of mistaken identity.
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[...] Whether these summary executions deter crime is subject to debate. While Duterte and his believers can argue that crime happens, no matter how tough he is on it, it certainly unnerves people when heinous crimes are still committed at the same time that the authorities are telling us it is honky-dory around here. Dead bodies littering the streets is not my idea of a peaceful and progressive city. For a background on this so-called “Duterte Formula” and to know more about Duterte, click here and here. [...]
well…it seem that..for him..its ok to kill ..his the mayor why can he create jobs for most of the people who are or if not most them are in below poverty level,as you know poverty creates crime…thats what people driven to crimes,what i see about him is that he create his own style of monarchy,like the king(sound like marcos)….the bill of right is guaranteed to every citizen to every people,that all men and women are created equal..and also those get killed by mistaken identity is that ,one of the reason not to press charge is that there scared….and here in philippines you gotta have lots of mone y to get justice….and if he frustrated to the law itself that doesnt mean not to follow it,you think davao is safe because his the mayor the answer is no instead he created a city in fear and scary…..I still believe the due process of the law…fair and honest government…and obeying the law is not a privilege its a duty to every citizen including the mayor,president,governor,everyone who understand the simple right or wrong….I just hope that someday the rule of law will preveil,and this nonsense killing without due process of the law will stop……peace out…
[...] Such a tragedy would drive a mother crazy but the 51-year-old Clarita Alia fought on, helping in the advocacy against the extrajudicial killings in Davao (thanks to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who openly endorses the killings) and at the same time trying to eke out a living in a hovel beside a dump in Bankerohan. [...]
[...] Such a tragedy would drive an ordinary mother crazy but the 51-year-old Clarita Alia is not an ordinary mother. Despite the tragedies, she fought on, helping in the advocacy against the extrajudicial killings in Davao (thanks to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who openly endorses the killings) and at the same time trying to eke out a living in a hovel beside a dump in Bankerohan. [...]
[...] Such a tragedy would drive an ordinary mother crazy but the 51-year-old Clarita Alia is not an ordinary mother. Despite the tragedies, she fought on, helping in the advocacy against the extrajudicial killings in Davao (thanks, but no thanks, to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who openly endorses the killings) and at the same time trying to eke out a living in a hovel beside a dump in Bankerohan. [...]
[...] It used to be that the killers, mainly the Davao Death Squad, would use .45 caliber pistols, usually shooting the victims in the head. Now, the methods seem to have changed. These days, it is quite common to hear news in Davao City of young men being stabbed, often to death, in and around Bankerohan or in the slum areas that dot the city. A Criminal Culture Clarita Alia supports her family by selling vegetables in Bankerohan. (davaotoday.com photo by Cheryll D. Fiel) It is a criminal culture nurtured by an increasing acceptance of extrajudicial means of dealing with crime, as exemplified by the rise of the Davao Death Squad. Mayor Rodrigo Duterte openly endorses these summary executions, warning criminals or suspected criminals even those still considered children, like Fernando that they, too, would be killed if they do not mend their ways. [...]
[...] His Royal Highness, King Rody of Davao INDISPENSABLE? Mayor Rodrigo Duterte says he decided to allow his daughter Sara to run for mayor for fear that traditional politicians will mess up the city. (davaotoday.com photo by Carlos H. Conde) [...]
[...] That was quite a mouthful Sara Duterte said yesterday, in a statement she gave to Sun.Star Davao. In the story by Stella Estremera, Sara said: “I demand that respect for privacy be given where it is due.” Sounds to us like Sara’s seeming disappointment at being dragged into the political limelight was directed at her father, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who recently disclosed that he wanted his daughter to be his vice mayor in order to preempt Benjamin de Guzman. Makes us wonder: Do members of the Duterte family even talk to each other? Or is this a case of manipulating the public, sort of a good-cop, bad-cop routine? PREVIOUS STORY: Reggae Davao Possible Related Posts:His Royal Highness, King Rody of DavaoThe Irrepressible DuterteDuterte Rejects GMAs Defense Chief OfferDavao’s New Traffic System Goes Haywire [...]
[...] That was quite a mouthful Sara Duterte said yesterday, in a statement she gave to Sun.Star Davao. In the story by Stella Estremera, Sara said: “I demand that respect for privacy be given where it is due.” Sounds to us like Sara’s seeming disappointment at being dragged into the political limelight was directed at her father, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. [...]
Please ask the mayor of davao : What will the Mayor do to those big land owner(s) :that oppress the poor – by tearing down their huts illegally ,using hired goons, leaving helpless children without a roof , exposing them to rain and some children encountering fevers and the parents have no where to settle.Children cannot go to school, and their parents cannot find a job, at this time.
How will he help the oppressed families in this case?
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This killing when it happened to hardened criminal is a must instead of wasting court money and time.But killing children is not right.If Rody really is a good man he should gather all this children and rehabilitate them ,instead of paying this so called death squad for every head they cut.Why not established a a kind of boys town where you teach kids some kind of skill?Carpentry,electricity,etc.
Drug pusher and supplier should be unmasked and every politician and military behind this should be wipe out instead of drug addicts(kids).Rody should know this guys,he is that kind of guy who knows everything when it comes to bad people.Right Rody.
The death squad use knives now because they don’t want any ballistic to trace who owns the gun,etc.
its easy to criticise the mayor. Most of his talk is just threats but like any threat some times you have to make good. If he is so bad and ruthless why is he so widely loved in davao city. i live in Davao City and i have seen with my own eyes how the everyday person respects him. Many poor people seek him out to tell thier little problems to. He listens. He digs into his own pocket to give to the poor. i am a american and we have children in the states running around with automatic weapons. you people need to get real.
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please reamin as a mayor!ur inddispensable!but if u must leave trein somebdy wd the same blood like u have!mybe ur son!
you people talk like as if you have been the reason why your place is already peaceful…
have you ever been in the midst of gunfire?
so what if the mayor speaks in the strongest form of words like “kill”
it doesn’t mean he endorses them… if you have lived in Davao as a good citizen you would never ever think that he endorses killing whenever he says that… you’d feel safe… and like he said when you are a criminal, when you have done wrong, you might as well flee…
if for any reason that the teens go haywire, i do not think it’s because of duterte… blame the media, blame the parents, blame hollywood promoting all these scenes even blame yourself!
? m from Turkey and have been to Davao twice . Big welldone to the mayor. you guys got a big problem with your population .God bless all
No matter what our opinion is “killing” is upfront WRONG! Duterte knows this in his heart . As we all say “Life is about choices” and that is his choice to lead this city . His method may be look like he’s saving the city from criminals but the truth about it is that he just want to sow fear in the mind of the people of davao for his personal gains. He is a diehard believer of Machiavelli who says “it is better to be feared than to be loved” . NO! he is not loved by the people of Davao , he is only feared . it’s only the media who pictures this guy as being loved . Ikaw ba naman bigyan ng monthly allowance to keep your mouth shut or print to make him pogi? or else you will end up like batman.
I never feared Mayor Duterte coz im not a criminal i love him coz of what he did in Davao city. Peace & order can be achieved if you will exterminate criminals. I don’t want to compare to other cities where i could not use my latest cellphone in the street texting my love one anytime, i couldn’t wear my bracelet, original Oakley and leave my car thinking of what happen next in the hands of carnapers. Guys out there have you seen this? Or you have just opposing coz one of your loveones killed by DDS coz he/she is a criminal.
Putang ina yang mga critics ni Mayor! I will be at all times in full support of my Idol, the Hon. Mayor Rody. He haS DONE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS THAT USHER TO THIS CITY’S ECONOMIC BOOM AND PEACE & ORDER STABILITY. THOSE WHO ARE CRITICIZING HIM, WHO ARE YOU TO DO THAT? WHAT ARE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS CITY? DI BA WLA KAYONG NAGAWA? KAYA WAG KAYONG NGAWA NG NGAWA.. pUTANG INA KAYO! THE DAVAOEOS WILL NEVER ENTRUST DAVAO CITY TO ANYBODY BUT ONLY TO MAYOR RODY..
[...] hearing on extrajudicial killings in Davao City, CHR chairperson Leila De Lima read this part of an excerpt from the davaotoday interview with mayor Rodrigo Duterte in [...]
I neither favor the mayor(DUTERTE) nor the victims but I gLadly be in favor of JUSTICE. I live in Davao City since birth,and for a very long time I often heard that issue of killings…and everyone had their own presumption and drawing out diffrent conclusion some are justifiable and others were not…BUT let me share this you that though “THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS” and never the means justify the end, still there are benefits taken out from it…It is better to sacrifice the lives of some innocent victims than to risks of everyone. It is not right to kill especially the innocent and young one and we better let the justice prevail but how can such Justice prevail…??? Everyone had their own stories in crying out for JUSTICE,..justice for the victims and the justice of those aggraveted by the victim prior to their death. Yes they are minor yet such fact does’t justify their acts. Minors nowadys are proned to most illegal activities for they are wrongly protected by the BILL created by pangilinan. In this case, if they are tolerated would they still be prohibited not to commit any crimes??? Their unjustifiable acts were largely protected with this idiot BILL for the justice cannot run through them….try to look at both sides…do not weigh more on the other, vice versa…everything that brought us better(incldg TECHNOLOGY) had their own risks and benefits.