Nanggaling ang kosepto ng "nanlaban" mula sa Davao City noong panahon na alkalde pa nito si dating Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, ayon sa salaysay sa Kongreso ni dating Senador Leila de Lima.
Ayon kay De Lima, inangkop ang konseptong ito sa nationwide War on Drugs noong naupo na bilang pangulo si Duterte.
Ayon kay De Lima, inangkop ang konseptong ito sa nationwide War on Drugs noong naupo na bilang pangulo si Duterte.
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00In your investigation of the so-called DTS, were you also investigating the police sponsor or the stateside aspect of the war on drugs or was this purely on the vigilante?
00:13It also included the police side, the PNP, the official, because of the HCIS, the Hinos Crimes Investigation Section. That was part of the official organizational structure of the DCPO, then the Davao City Police Office.
00:36So the members, especially the original members of the Hinos Crimes Investigation Section were actually the DTS members as testified on or attested to, especially by Arturo Lascañas.
00:52So it's not just the killings by the rioting in tandem, the unknown assassins, but precisely the structure which points to the fact that these are headed, especially the handlers, by policemen under the DCPO.
01:13That is what I remember from the information we received.
01:19So, already covered.
01:21Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, the former senator has now confirmed, aside from the vigilante killings, the rioting in tandem, and the Sinaloa-style killings, according to Ernie Conti, there were also police operations involved.
01:31Can you confirm for us, through the chairman of course, the operational aspect of the police? This would include the non-combatants in legitimate police operations and by-bus operations.
01:42Was this something that was investigated in the locality of Davao during your time as CHR?
01:48Yes, some aspect of it. Because of the organizational structure. Because indeed, policemen were handling the operations.
01:59The names I mentioned, SPO4 Sanson-Beneventura as the logistics finance and death clearance officer, SPO3 Arturo Lascañas as overall team leader for operations and planning, SPO4 Bienvenido Laud as team handler, SPO3 Jim Tan as team handler.
02:26They were then, as far as I know, as far as I could recall from the records, they were then active police officers, but assigned to this HCIS, or Hinos Crimes Investigation Section, in charge of those killings.
02:42Mr. Chair, thank you for the clarification. However, I think most respectfully, we have to clarify, their being members of the PNP should be distinguished from the operations being undertaken by the PNP.
02:54Because while we have confirmed, based on your testimony, that they are confirmed to be active members of the uniformed personnel, but if the way that the EJK was conducted was solely limited to the vigilante side,
03:08we're talking about Sinaloa killings, abduction, riding in tandem, extrajudicial, this would be different from the police operations side.
03:19Because what we've seen based on the operations, they come in two forms.
03:22Usually, when we're talking about the HVT, the high value target, this would rely on vigilante killings that we would see and have seen, based on testimonials of Colonel Garma.
03:33But we also have to consider that for the supposedly legitimate operations, in which, later on, there is supposedly, allegedly, planting of evidence, drug buster by bus, which has gone wrong.
03:46I think this would be considered as, under the auspices of a legitimate police operation.
03:52Now, my question to the former Senator, to the Honorable Chairman, is that, was this part of the so-called DDS operations in the locality?
04:01Because what I'm talking about here, what we're basing on, the testimony of Colonel Garma, is talking about the nationwide scale.
04:06And we've seen it, the testimony of Attorney Conti, we're talking nationwide, we've seen both vigilante and police operations.
04:12My question now is, at least for the investigation of the DDS in Davao, did this involve, because I understand, there's the HCIS, and that they were active members of the police force.
04:21But did they employ by bus operations and non-laban to perpetrate this so-called war on drugs?
04:29To answer your question, Your Honor, I have to point out that the non-laban concept actually originated in Davao and invented by the DDS.
04:39So it's not something new.
04:41There may be fewer cases then, kasi karamihan nga is the riding in tandem, mga vigilante killings, as induced by then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
04:51But there were also specific cases na ganun, because the non-laban concept actually originated from the DDS operations.
05:02Thank you for that confirmation.
05:03So although it might have been a few, it's not novel.
05:06There was a non-laban and there was supposedly legitimate police operations conducted in the locality.
05:11Yes, Your Honor.