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<h1 class="reader-title">Opposition: A 'Duterte Death Squad'
Would Incite Killing Spree</h1>
Published 28 November 2018</div>
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<p>On Wednesday, <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Philippines-Duterte-To-Keep-Up-Relentless-Chilling-Drug-War-20180723-0011.html">Filipino</a> President Rodrigo
Duterte declared that he is open to creating a "death
squad," Reuters reported. According to exiled Communist
Party of the Philippines leader, Jose Maria Sison,
Duterte will effectively issue a "license to kill"
political opponents and <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Indigenous-Labor-Groups-Protest-US-Duterte-Fascist-Regime-20180723-0005.html">critics</a>, as
well as activists.</p>
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<p><strong>RELATED:<br>
<a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Rodrigo-Duterte-Says-His-Only-Sin-is-Extrajudicial-Killings-20180928-0002.html">Rodrigo
Duterte Says His 'Only Sin is Extrajudicial
Killings'</a></strong></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span>“That is their advantage. So I
am going to create my own sparrow, the ‘Duterte
Death Squad’,” the president said, referencing
an alleged </span></span></span></span>Communist
Party <span><span><span><span>killing squad which was
reportedly prominent in the 1970s and 1980s
under </span></span></span></span>Ferdinand
Marcos' rule<span><span><span><span>. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>“He gives himself the reason to
form his own death squads,” Sison, who </span></span></span></span><span><span><span>denies</span><span><span> the
existence of the sparrows, </span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span>told
the ANC news channel.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>The “sparrows” were reportedly
deployed, during the dictatorship of Marcos, to
combat police. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>Leftist groups, such as Bayan,
have denounced Duterte’s statement, declaring
that the remark is a justification for creating
a death squad, tasked with persecution, for
“inciting a killing spree against government
critics, human rights defenders and just about
everyone else tagged by the </span></span></span></span><span><span><span>government</span></span></span><span><span><span><span> as
‘Red’.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p>Critics of Duterte on the left are concerned that
implementation of a death squad could unleash
mass killings comparable to that of the 'Drug War,'
further deepening the climate of fear and impunity which
plague the Philippines.</p>
<p>The president, who is known for repressing political
dissent and promoting the killing of suspects of drug
trafficking and consumption, has led a <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Philippines-Dutertes-Approval-Rating-Drops-to-New-Low-20180711-0022.html">brutal
drug-war</a> which has resulted in the deaths of some
4,800 people.</p>
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