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00:00A possible witness in the ICC against the former President Duterte are the two former members of the Davao Death Squad,
00:07Edgar Matubato, a self-confessed hitman, and the former Davao police officer, Arturo Lascañas.
00:14Witness, Mackie Polido.
00:20The former President Rodrigo Duterte's role as the founder and leader of the Davao Death Squad was mentioned in the warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Court.
00:30It is a group in Davao that kills criminals in the area and has long been associated with Duterte.
00:36It is time for the accusations against Duterte to go to trial.
00:39The two former members of the Davao Death Squad admitted that the possible witness against him
00:45is Edgar Matubato and the former Davao police officer, Arturo Lascañas.
00:49Edgar Matubato is a self-confessed hitman.
00:52According to the Senate hearing in 2016, he was killed from 1998 to 2013.
00:59Our job, ma'am, is to kill criminals such as drug abusers, rapists, snitches.
01:08That's what we kill. We kill them every day.
01:11He was one of the first members of the Lambada Boys,
01:14formerly called the Davao Death Squad, led by the former President Rodrigo Duterte when he was the mayor of Davao.
01:21Many admitted that Matubato was killed by Duterte's orders.
01:25Luckily, Jun Pala, a radio broadcaster, was one of them.
01:28Why? Because he was on vacation on the radio every day, ma'am, every day.
01:37I was part of the operation, but I didn't make it.
01:42How was Jun Pala killed?
01:44He was ambushed, ma'am.
01:45Where was he ambushed?
01:47In Sasa. He was on his way home.
01:50Matubato also mentioned that he was one of the kidnappers who were caught in Sarangani and were eaten alive.
01:56I don't know his name, ma'am.
01:58We just took him and killed him.
02:02But we didn't use weapons to kill him.
02:07We ate him alive.
02:09Where?
02:11In Kapatagan, ma'am.
02:15Arturo Lascañas, a former Davao police officer, was the team leader of Davao Death Squad.
02:19Because of fear, Lascañas first denied Matubato's testimony in 2016.
02:24But in 2017, he pleaded to confirm the killing of DDS by Duterte's orders.
02:31His first mission was to kill the first drug lord in Davao, Alan Cancio.
02:37This is where Davao Death Squad started.
02:40Because we left a note called Pamarisan and it said Davao Death Squad.
02:50This is where it started.
02:53Lascañas said that they were given up to P100,000 reward for each person they killed.
02:59For all the murders that we committed in Davao City,
03:04even if we threw them in the ocean,
03:07we were paid by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
03:13Usually P20,000, sometimes P50,000.
03:19And it depends on the status of the target, sometimes P100,000.
03:24He also confirmed Matubato's story of killing the broadcaster, Jun Pala,
03:29where he received a huge bribe from Duterte.
03:33Mayor Rodri told me P1,000,000.
03:36He told me P1,000,000.
03:38I accepted it and said thank you, sir.
03:41And then I left.
03:42Duterte said before that Matubato was lying, that he didn't know him personally.
03:47Lascañas was called the one who made up the story and that he was crazy.
03:52But when he faced the Senate hearing a year ago, the former president admitted.
03:57I can make the confession now, if you want.
04:02First, what really happened was that I had a death squad.
04:12Death squad.
04:14But not the police.
04:18They were also the gangsters.
04:23I ordered the gangsters to kill him.
04:27If you don't kill him, I will kill you now.
04:30In the report of the New York Times in 2017,
04:32Lascañas is now under the custody of the ICC or International Criminal Court.
04:37The affidavit filed by Lascañas was accepted by the ICC
04:41and Lascañas was given a limited immunity deal.
04:44It means that he will not use the evidence to correct him.
04:49Meanwhile, Matubato was written by the New York Times that
04:52he was from another country in January 2025
04:54using another name with the help of a private organization.
04:58According to Atty. Cristina Conti,
05:00Matubato is now under the custody of the ICC Victims and Witnesses,
05:05the ICC unit that provides protection to the witnesses.
05:08It is important that Matubato and Lascañas will be the witnesses
05:12in Duterte's involvement in the double death squad.
05:16Those who are inside the organization can tell
05:20what the double death squad really looks like.
05:23Both Matubato and Lascañas are considered as insider witnesses.
05:28For GMA Integrated News, I am Mackie Pulido, your witness.
05:45For GMA Integrated News, I am Mackie Pulido, your witness.