Retired Davao cop Arturo Lascañas gave his testimony on extrajudicial killings to the ICC
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00:00 A tell-all testimony from a self-confessed former member of the notoriously infamous Davao Death Squad
00:06 is implicating the former president, the current vice president, and the former Philippine National Police chief
00:12 of not only being involved in the illegal drugs trade, but of also ordering the deaths of many.
00:18 With a tail fit for a best-seller novel, those whose names are being smeared immediately express their respective reactions
00:25 and denial to the explosive allegations. Patrick de Jesus has more.
00:30 Retired Davao police officer Arturo Lascañas has gave his testimonies last year to the International Criminal Court
00:40 on the alleged extrajudicial killings in Davao City.
00:44 Lascañas is a self-confessed member of the Davao Death Squad and hitman of former president Rodrigo Duterte
00:52 when he was still a mayor. Lascañas said no one bribed him to show up again and added the ICC has accepted his affidavit.
01:01 I was given... aside from the 186 computer prints I was given, I also have 120 testimonies that were put in a big notebook.
01:17 In fact, I was given the title of notebook lion from darkness to light. In fact, the office of the prosecutor accepted it.
01:29 Lascañas, the named vice president Sara Duterte, has the brains behind Oplan Tokhang when she was still the Davao mayor.
01:37 She doesn't know what her father, Bogus Dragwar, is doing. She invented a new trademark of extrajudicial killings in the name of Tokhang.
01:53 And here, she allowed police colonel Ronald Batul de la Rosa to enforce it in Davao City. Many people are dying here, many are missing.
02:06 Did Sara Duterte investigate? No. Did the Davao City Council investigate? No. Did the Commission on Human Rights investigate? No. They all have it.
02:19 VP Sara once again denied her connection to the Davao death squad.
02:23 This script is new. In the years I served as the vice mayor and mayor of Davao City, sometimes my name was not included in this issue.
02:33 Suddenly, a witness against me, a vice president, was found. And I am now one of the accused in the International Criminal Court.
02:43 She reiterates all complaints against her should only be filed here in the Philippines.
02:49 The ICC's insistence to investigate our judicature is a breach of our sovereignty. It is a violation of the dignity of Filipinos and the honor of the Philippines.
03:01 This debate is over. To the witness and the people behind her, file a murder case against me here in the Philippines.
03:11 Meanwhile, Las Cañas also named-dropped Senator Ronald de la Rosa, who was then Colonel and Davao Police Chief, as well as Senator Bong Goh, on the alleged Davao death squad.
03:22 Senator Goh calls the statement of Las Cañas as "pure fabrication and lies" and added that former President Duterte never gave such an order.
03:32 Goh also said that the issue is rehashed and no evidence has been presented as of yet.
03:39 While de la Rosa's response on the allegations of Las Cañas...
03:42 You just let it go. She's just a liar. She's just a liar. She's just a liar. She's just a liar.
03:49 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has previously declared the ICC has no jurisdiction in the Philippines.
03:56 Patrick de Azuz for the Nation.