Garma confirms Duterte offered reward for drug war killings

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Retired police colonel Royina Garma directly implicates former president Rodrigo Duterte in the extrajudicial killings committed by the police in the war on drugs.

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00:00Retired police colonel Roina Garma directly implicates former President Rodrigo Duterte
00:06in the extrajudicial killings committed by the police in the war on drugs.
00:11In tears during the House of Representatives Quad Committee hearing on Friday, October
00:1511, Garma says Duterte called her to a meeting in May 2016.
00:20She says he needed someone capable of implementing the war on drugs on a national scale that
00:25replicates the Davao model.
00:27Garma explains it's a system involving three levels of payment and rewards.
00:32Garma adds she recalled her upperclassman, current National Police Commission commissioner
00:37Edilberto Leonardo, as a perfect fit for Duterte's request.
00:42Garma also describes the role of then-Duterte aide Bong Go, who included the incidents in
00:47his weekly report and requested for refunds.
00:49I am afraid of my life in the chair.

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