Edgar Matobato, a former assassin of Rodrigo Duterte's notorious Davao Death Squad, has escaped the Philippines and is seeking justice at the International Criminal Court (ICC). This bombshell news highlights the reality of Duterte's extrajudicial killings and offers hope for accountability.
This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. The emotion is real: Matobato is free at last — thank God Almighty he is free at last! It points to a generous heaping of hope, that Rodrigo Duterte and all accomplices named with him will face the bar of justice in the International Criminal Court . It was the kind of news that dropped a bombshell.
Edgar Matobato, the first former assassin of the dreaded Davao Death Squad of Rodrigo Duterte to testify in the Senate, had fled the Philippines to appear before the International Criminal Court. Many were caught unaware: for those who had long thought he was already outside the country like his DDS team leader Arturo Lascañas before him, and for those who had forgotten his name because he had since been out of sight in a safehouse somewhere in Luzon for the past seven years.about his escape, complete with photos of him and his wife, even showed scenes of his safehouse, the ride they took to the Manila airport, his flight to an undisclosed foreign country and finally walking the streets of a land whose language was alien to him. But more importantly, the news of his escape confronted us of the kind that sends shivers down the spine: the Davao Death Squad was real; Duterte’s orgiastic extrajudicial killings (EJKs) had indeed taken place. And then the incredible reality confounds: Edgar Matobato is free at last!In early 2022, a, who was in exile in Europe because of death threats he had been receiving, asked for my help. He had behind him 20 solid years of publicly denouncing the killings right from the belly of the beast — Davao City. In 2022, he was in the process of firming up a detailed report of the DDS spanning 1998 to 2015, for submission as information to the ICC. The help he asked was by no means considerable. But he thought it was of import to the case against Duterte et al of crimes against humanity in the IC
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