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<b><span style="color: magenta;">TACLOBAN CITY - A member of the <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/read-alleged-espinosa-hitmen-surrender.html">Espinosa Drug Group</a> and a trusted aide of suspected drug personality Kerwin Espinosa has <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/look-member-of-espinosas-drug-group.html">voluntarily surrendered</a> to the police.</span></b></h2>
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<b><br />Leyte Provincial Police Office identified the one who surrendered as Nick <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/read-alleged-espinosa-hitmen-surrender.html">Junie Canin</a>, 35. <br /><br />Police said he was a <a href="http://high-value/">high-value</a> target because of his involvement in the illegal drug trade in <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/08/watch-11-kilo-shabu-nakumpiska-sa-bahay.html">Kananga, Leyte</a>.<br /><br />Canin brought with him two large sachets of suspected shabu weighing 8.7 grams, a caliber .45 pistol loaded with live ammunition, and a weighing scale.<br /><br />The<a href="http://high-value/"> shabu</a> had an estimated street value of P69,000, police said. <br /><br />The items are under the custody of Albuera Police Station and will be turned over to the crime laboratory of PNP Regional Office 8 for <a href="http://high-value/">laboratory examinations</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />SOURCE: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/29/16/member-of-espinosas-drug-group-surrenders-police">ANC</a></b></div>

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The inconsistencies, if any, were trivial as shown by the transcript of the hearing of the Senate committee on justice and human rights, Trillanes said in a statement.</div>
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Despite the badgering by some senators, Matobato was consistent about the events and other details he was sure about, Trillanes added.</div>
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During yesterday’s hearing presided by its new chair, Sen. Richard Gordon, Trillanes accused some of his colleagues of confusing Matobato to make it appear that he had been lying.</div>
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“But I must admit, there was a language barrier and a few of my colleagues took advantage of that. Napakita nila na mas magaling sila sa grade 1. [They showed they were better than someone who only finished grade 1],” Trillanes said.</div>
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The Senate committee on justice and human rights on Thursday resumed its probe on the extrajudicial killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.</div>
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Attending the hearing for the second time, Matobato’s testimony was scrutinized by Senators Gordon, Alan Cayetano, Manny Pacquiao, and Tito Sotto.</div>
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The senators said there were inconsistencies in Matobato’s testimonies, including Matobato’s statements on who ordered the killing of alleged terrorist Sali Makdum and Matobato’s affiliation with the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu).</div>
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SOURCE: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/23/16/trillanes-inconsistencies-in-matobatos-claims-trivial">ABS-CBN</a></div>

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<span style="line-height: 1.5;"><b><i>STRONGMEN? Senator Antonio Trillanes IV likens President Rodrigo Duterte to the late Andal Ampatuan Sr, alleged mastermind of the Maguindanao massacre, and Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Escobar photo by Wikipedia, Ampatuan photo by EPA</i></b></span></div>
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MANILA, Philippines – One of the fiercest critics of President Rodrigo Duterte has likened him to an alleged murderer and a drug cartel leader, after hearing an alleged hired gun testify on murders supposedly ordered by Duterte when he was a mayor.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;">Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday, September 15, compared Duterte to the </span>late Andal Ampatuan Sr, the alleged mastermind of the 2009 election-related massacre, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;">Colombian drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar.</span></div>
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Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed hitman of the Davao Death Squad, testified during the 3rd hearing on the extrajudicial killings under the Duterte administration. (READ: Senators face off at probe into killings: 'Trash talk, out of order')</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Precisely, based on the testimony, the impression that I got [ay] ito 'yung Ampatuan of Davao City, 'yung ganung culture of impunity na kahit sino na lang makursunadahan, 'yun na ang papatayin,"</em> Trillanes told reporters.</div>
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(Precisely, based on the testimony, the impression that I got is he is the Ampatuan of Davao City, with the culture of impunity that anyone they want to kill, they would just kill.)</div>
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He added: "<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">'Yun ang 'pinupunto ko. Sinabi ko rin 'yan na Pablo Escobar of the Philippines. Ganyan din 'yung mga methods na ginagawa nila for anybody who would go against them, cross them."</em></div>
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(That's what I'm talking about. I also said that he is the Pablo Escobar of the Philippines. Those are the same methods they employed on anybody who would go against them, cross them.)</div>
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Ampatuan Sr, along with his son, Andal "Unsay" Ampatuan Jr, is the principal accused in the massacre of 58 individuals in Sityo Masalay, Ampatuan, Maguindanao in November 2009. The attack was aimed at thwarting the gubernatorial bid of rival Esmael "Toto" Mangudadatu in the May 2010 polls.</div>
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Some of the bullet-riddled bodies were strewn on the open field when police arrived. More had been buried on the same day, along with several of the vehicles.</div>
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Escobar, meanwhile, was the Colombian drug lord who built an empire dealing cocaine. He was known for ordering the deaths of thousands of people like "politicians, judges, journalists, and rival traffickers."</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Nakita 'nyo naman, makanti lang ng batikos, he will go ballistic. I don't know how he will react to this, babantayan natin 'yan,"</em>Trillanes said.</div>
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(You see how he is: when he gets criticized, he goes ballistic. I don't know how he will react to this. We will closely watch this.)</div>
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Matobato accused Duterte of having ordered the killings of perceived enemies and critics in Davao City.</div>
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Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said the testimony was a diversionary tactic of Senator Leila de Lima, who will be the subject of a congressional investigation into the proliferation of illegal drugs in the national penitentiary when she was the justice secretary.</div>
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Matobato also accused first son and Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte of being a drug user, smuggler, and protector of some Chinese drug lords.The young Duterte said he would not dignify with an answer the statements of a "madman."</div>
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SOURCE: <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/146351-trillanes-duterte-ampatuan-pablo-escobar" target="_blank">RAPPLER</a></div>

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