{"id":67530,"date":"2024-10-28T21:16:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/28\/rodrigo-duterte-testifies-philippines-war-on-drugs-inquiry"},"modified":"2024-10-28T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:16:24","slug":"duterte-tells-philippines-war-on-drugs-inquiry-he-kept-a-death-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67530","title":{"rendered":"Duterte tells Philippines \u2018war on drugs\u2019 inquiry he kept a death squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president says he kept criminals to kill other criminals while mayor and offers no apologies at hearing investigating crackdowns<\/p>\n<p>The former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has told a senate inquiry into drug killings under his leadership that he kept a \u201cdeath squad\u201d of criminals to kill other criminals while serving as a mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old, making his first public appearance on Monday since his term ended in 2022, said he offered \u201cno apologies, no excuses\u201d for his presidency, during which as many as 30,000 people were killed in a \u201cwar on drugs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/28\/rodrigo-duterte-testifies-philippines-war-on-drugs-inquiry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president says he kept criminals to kill other criminals while mayor and offers no apologies at hearing investigating crackdownsThe former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has told a senate inquiry into drug killings under his leadership that he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,372,1057,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs","category-drugs-trade","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67531,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67530\/revisions\/67531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}