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00:00Before the witness, more than 30 million pesos worth of cocaine and shabu were found in Taguig.
00:20In the Southern Police District, this was confiscated from a high-value individual in a buy bus in Barangay Western, Bicutan.
00:274.5 kilos of shabu and 6.9 grams of cocaine were found in front of the complaint filed by the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.
00:36And the suspect is still missing.
00:42More than a hundred were found at the scene of the Christine Flood.
00:46Thirty-eight were lost.
00:48And now, many places are still flooded.
00:50It is still unclear where the funds for the government's flood control projects went.
00:55Here's Jonathan Andal.
01:01After the Christine Flood, the flood left a trail in Batangas.
01:07The Danio family in Agoncillo was waiting for the flood for almost a whole day.
01:12They were afraid that they would see the body of their father in the flood.
01:18It's like there's a piece of wood stuck in his head.
01:20They threw it away.
01:21It's important that the piece of wood fell down so that it can be put back in place.
01:26The fish cages were also not saved.
01:29That's why there are fish kills in the area.
01:31The smell of the Taal Lake is a bit fishy now.
01:34There are a lot of dead fish, like this one.
01:38Dead tilapia that were lost in the cages that were destroyed by the flood.
01:43They also have a problem with the National Road that was cut off.
01:46Before, this land was concrete.
01:48It was going to the other side.
01:50But now, there's a flood.
01:52Water has already entered.
01:54The barangay of Banyaga, Bilibinwang, and Parcially Isolated are now isolated.
02:00According to the unofficial count of Batangas PNP,
02:0364 people died while 15 people were lost in the whole province.
02:09There are more than 3,000 residents in the evacuation center in Agoncillo.
02:13We really need a fund.
02:16Of course, the basic needs are rice, food, water.
02:21And of course, we need financial assistance for them.
02:25According to our estimate, more than 1 billion were lost.
02:29Presently, the residents are preparing for a new typhoon.
02:33Pope Francis prayed for those affected by the typhoon.
02:36He also sent help from other countries, like America, Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia.
02:43The UK, Japan, Germany, and China are also ready to help.
02:47Especially, many places in the country are trying to recover, like Dagupan City,
02:51which is in a state of calamity.
02:53According to the CDRRMO, 21 barangays were affected by the storm surge.
02:5810 were affected by the rain and high tide.
03:01In Tuguegarao City, in Cagayan, there is still a flood.
03:04We need this, and we also need drainage.
03:08If it falls, we will have to wait for days.
03:12Some residents chose to stay in their tents with their belongings.
03:17Others are afraid to return to their homes because the water in the river might overflow again.
03:22The LGU is now studying if the city is in a state of calamity.
03:26Around 10 plus million in agricultural.
03:29And then in livelihood, there are more because there are many 4 days without entry.
03:34Now, there is still a lot of rain because of the typhoon Christine,
03:37the government's flood control projects were cut again.
03:40According to Senate President Jesus Codero,
03:42the estimated budget for flood control projects for the next year is around 303 billion pesos.
03:49The flood control measures that have been implemented over the years would not have expected
03:54the rain to pour in less than 24 hours.
04:00That could have been distributed in three months' time or four months' time.
04:04It will pour in that one point in time.
04:07According to Mahar Lagmay of Project NOAH,
04:09there should be a flood control project for the next year.
04:14According to Mahar Lagmay of Project NOAH,
04:16a nature-based solution should be studied.
04:20Put a thick forest cover so that the water does not flow down.
04:24So that there is less erosion, less siltation,
04:29more trees, it will absorb more water.
04:33If the river is cated, even the flood plains need to be preserved.
04:38For GMA Integrated News, I am Jonathan Andal, your sexy.
04:42In his first appearance in the Senate hearing on war on drugs,
04:45former President Rodrigo Duterte admitted that he had orders from the police
04:49to kill drug suspects in a drug campaign.
04:52But Duterte admitted that he had a death squad in Davao.
04:57Sexy, Rafi Tima.
05:03I can make a confession now.
05:07I can make a confession now, if you want.
05:11I have a death squad, but not the police.
05:19They are also the gangsters.
05:23Mr. Chair.
05:24I have orders from one gangster.
05:26Kill him, because if you don't kill him, I will kill you now.
05:30This is what former President Rodrigo Duterte admitted
05:33about the Davao death squad when he faced the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee
05:37investigating his war on drugs.
05:40You mentioned that you have your own hit squad.
05:44Is that what you're trying to tell us?
05:47So that we won't be confused.
05:49Can we be very clear?
05:51It's not a death squad.
05:53This is a direct statement.
05:56It's not a death squad.
05:59It's not a death squad.
06:01As long as the people in Davao know that I'm there
06:05and you commit a heinous crime
06:10and the aggravated person can't go there,
06:17that's me.
06:19What is the structure of his death squad?
06:22Structure against crime and criminals.
06:26And who are the victims?
06:28They were all killed, ma'am.
06:30It's okay, sir. What are their names?
06:33I cannot remember the name.
06:35I am 73 years old.
06:39I don't know why I'm here in front of you.
06:43Are there rewards for those 7 people who were killed?
06:48No, ma'am.
06:49There are many idiots who are rich in Davao.
06:53What is the connection between the rich in Davao and the members of the death squad?
06:58Because they want their city to be safe.
07:01Because they want business to thrive.
07:11Call of duty of the president.
07:14That's me.
07:16Because I was the president at the time.
07:19And I didn't just call, Mr. Senator.
07:26I warned all Filipinos.
07:32If you are addicted to drugs,
07:36drop it.
07:40Because we will have problems.
07:43There are murders.
07:45But it was not state-sponsored killing.
07:51But Duterte said that he asked the police to kill the criminals.
07:56He also taught the former police generals who joined the death squad.
08:01All of these on my right side,
08:06were killed by the chief of police, the police director.
08:15All of them were commanders of the death squad.
08:20Senator De La Rosa.
08:23He was part of the death squad.
08:26Because they were police directors
08:30handling the controlling crimes in the city.
08:39So when you say death squad,
08:43it's a very loose term.
08:46I mind very much me being associated with the DDS.
08:50Because during that time when I was the city director,
08:53it was really a problem for us.
08:56Especially the unsolved killings.
08:59I think he's just joking here.
09:01There's no such thing as you kill him.
09:05So it's just a matter of taking things on your hand.
09:08He really said it as a joke.
09:10In fact, he went home afterwards.
09:14The police are not part of the death squad.
09:16Earlier, you said that you encouraged the PNP
09:20to encourage the suspect to fight
09:24so that he can be killed.
09:25So that he can say, fight.
09:27Correct.
09:28Correct.
09:29It was very incorrect.
09:31Correct, yes.
09:32If I go back, sir, I will do it again.
09:37Double.
09:38Duterte was also faced with the hearing
09:40of former Senator Laila Drima.
09:42Just one seat between the two.
09:44In front of Drima and his family
09:46who died under the Duterte drug war,
09:48Duterte said that he will not apologize
09:51even though he promises responsibility for the campaign.
09:54Do not question my policies.
09:58Because I offer no apologies,
10:03no excuses.
10:06I did what I had to do.
10:10Whether you believe it or not,
10:14I did it for my country.
10:18For all of its successes and shortcomings,
10:24I, and I alone,
10:28take full legal responsibility.
10:34I will answer.
10:36And I will be jailed.
10:38Do not call the police to follow my orders.
10:41It is a pity.
10:43And it is my job.
10:45He was inducing, encouraging the killings.
10:51And it cannot just be purely rhetoric.
10:55Because he followed what he said.
11:00He followed what he said
11:03that those should be killed.
11:06No matter if they fought or not.
11:08That's too much to say that everyone fought.
11:13We don't even have the death penalty.
11:15There is no honor in punishment like tokhang.
11:20It should not be an honor to be called the punisher
11:24when thousands of innocent people,
11:26including babies, have died in your name.
11:30The war on drugs will never be tolerated by the Filipinos.
11:36Some of the victims of the drug war are under investigation.
11:39One of them is Kian De Los Santos,
11:41a 17-year-old student who was shot and killed by the police in Caloocan
11:45because he fought back in 2017.
11:48It was proven that he did not have a gun
11:50and he did not fight the police.
11:53The discussion heated up when the former president asked
11:56if he was taking full responsibility for Kian's death
12:00and for the other victims of the war on drugs.
12:02The police took full responsibility.
12:05Yes, and what about the result of the police
12:07who killed thousands of people, including Kian De Los Santos?
12:11Do you also take full responsibility for that, Mr. Chair?
12:15No.
12:16How about Carl Anzunino?
12:20Before you ramble on those communities.
12:22No, no, no, I'm not rambling, Mr. Chair.
12:24My questions are very specific.
12:26No, the law is specific.
12:28Guilt is personal.
12:30Ask the lawyer first.
12:33It's okay. I can ask the lawyer.
12:35Ask him first before we proceed.
12:38No, no, no, I already prepared these questions with my lawyer.
12:42Guilt is personal.
12:43Yes, it's very personal.
12:45You cannot pass it on to others.
12:47No, no, no, this is not passing.
12:49Blue Ribbon is investigating
12:51the war on drugs and the result of extrajudicial killings.
12:55Now let me ask you about Carl Antoni Nunez.
12:58Do you take responsibility for his death?
13:01You didn't get the policy of the President.
13:05I got the policy, Mr. Cardin.
13:07I was talking about the policy.
13:09I take full responsibility for the war on drugs.
13:15You said, sir, you can hold me responsible for any death.
13:20Specific crimes.
13:21Yes, sir. You spoke about specific crimes.
13:25If I say I will take full responsibility,
13:29when we go to court, they won't accept it.
13:33Well, Mr. Chair, and if the resource person could keep his volume and pitch to a normal level.
13:40Mr. Chair, you are pinned down by your own statements of October.
13:47No, no, no, Mr. Chair.
13:49I'm not trying to pin down on the exchanges.
13:52You are no longer productive, Mr. Chair.
13:54Do not pin me down on semantics.
13:57Retired Col. Ruyina Garma, who has a good reward system for the police,
14:00also agreed that the drug war should be implemented.
14:04The former police chief, Col. Hector Grijaldo, also agreed to the hearing.
14:08He said that the House Squad Committee ordered him to confirm the so-called reward system.
14:13If Dan Fernandez put the paper he was holding on the table and told me,
14:20this is what you will say in this statement,
14:23this is the supplemental statement of Col. Garma,
14:28tell me that you know the reward system.
14:32Just confirm it.
14:34It's like they want me to lie, Your Honor.
14:39Congressman Dan Fernandez and Benny Abante could deny this.
14:43They called the statement of Grijaldo a lie.
14:47According to Fernandez, Grijaldo was called because according to Garma,
14:51he can support his statement about the reward system.
14:54But Grijaldo did not insist on saying that he does not know about this.
14:58The statements against them will be discredited by the committee.
15:02Abante said that he did not insist on signing any affidavit in exchange for the possibility of promotion.
15:08In the Senate hearing, Ermina Espino, a.k.a. Mooking, also denied the allegation of Garma
15:13that when Espino was the Assistant Secretary of the Presidential Management Staff,
15:16he was the one who issued the funds for the payment.
15:19Some former PNP chiefs in the Duterte administration were also denied,
15:23including Senator Bato de la Rosa, who held a briefing between them
15:27and former Col. Edelberto Leonardo about the drug situation of the country
15:31before they became the chief of police.
15:33For GMI Integrated News, I am Rafi Timang, your witness.
15:39More than 6,000 people have been injured in drug operations since July 1, 2016 until May 31, 2022.
15:47This is based on the data of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency or PDEA.
15:51And in these cases, the police and other law enforcement personnel often defended
15:56that the drug suspects were fighting, that's why they were killed.
16:00But there are also cases where the police responded.
16:05Just like the case of 17-year-old Kian de los Santos,
16:08who was killed by the Philippine Police in 2017.
16:12Kian was arrested by a drug runner who fought back.
16:16But in the decision of the Philippine Regional Trial Court Branch 125 in 2018,
16:21three police officers were found guilty in the murder of Kian.
16:26And in the case of 19-year-old Carl Angelo Arnaiz
16:30and 14-year-old Reynaldo Colut de Guzman,
16:33two police officers were charged with the crime.
16:36And one of them died while in prison.
16:39Another one was found guilty in the torture and planting of evidence cases in 2022
16:45and the murder in 2023.
16:47And in 2024, the Philippine Regional Trial Court convicted the four police officers
16:52in the homicide in the murder of Luis and Gabrielle Bonifacio
16:57in a drug buy bus in September 2016.
17:02In 2021, the International Criminal Court pre-trial Chamber 1
17:06allowed the ICC prosecutor to investigate war drugs
17:10even though the Philippines withdrew from the ICC in 2018
17:14and the withdrawal became effective in 2019.
17:17But President Bongbong Marcos and other officials of his administration said
17:23that the Philippines does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC.
17:31.