HOW TO GET THE TRUTH FROM RETIRED COP WHO ALLEGES HUNDREDS WERE KILLED

in Davao drug war when Duterte was city mayor. Retired SPO3 Arthur Lascañas made the damming allegation about the Davao Death Squad and then mayor Duterte’s role in it, including direct orders from him to kill specified drug suspects and political enemies.

Lascañas appeared to boost the testimony of another self-confessed killer, Edgar Matobato, whom he earlier, in the first inquiry by the Senate, contradicted.

Probing Lascañas’s credibility would be the daunting task of the Senate that voted to reopen its investigation on the illegal killings.