{"id":92611,"date":"2017-03-06T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92611"},"modified":"2017-03-06T02:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:07:09","slug":"ex-cop-links-philippine-leader-to-killings-in-senate-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/06\/ex-cop-links-philippine-leader-to-killings-in-senate-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex cop links Philippine leader to killings in Senate inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92613\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SPO3-Arturo-Lascanas_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92613\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SPO3-Arturo-Lascanas_2.jpg\" alt=\"Retired SPO3 Arthur Lasca\u00f1as, the self-proclaimed member of the Davao Death Squad, testifies at the Senate inquiry headed by Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday (March 6, 2017) at the Plenary Hall of the Senate Building in Pasay City. He is accompanied by his lawyers Atty. Pablito and Arno Sanidad. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan) JMC\/acd\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SPO3-Arturo-Lascanas_2.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SPO3-Arturo-Lascanas_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SPO3-Arturo-Lascanas_2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SPO3-Arturo-Lascanas_2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired SPO3 Arthur Lasca\u00f1as, the self-proclaimed member of the Davao Death Squad, testifies at the Senate inquiry headed by Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday (March 6, 2017) at the Plenary Hall of the Senate Building in Pasay City. He is accompanied by his lawyers Atty. Pablito and Arno Sanidad. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan) JMC\/acd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014A retired Philippine officer has linked President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was a mayor, and his men to nearly 200 killings, including of foreign drug suspects, that the officer and other members of a so-called death squad allegedly carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Arturo Lascanas made the allegations at the start of a nationally televised Senate inquiry Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte&#8217;s spokesman, Ernesto Abella, described Lascanas as a \u201cpolluted source and perjured witness\u201d because he had denied in a separate 2016 Senate hearing that there was a \u201cDavao Death Squad,\u201d which has been linked to then mayor Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Abella called Lascanas&#8217; testimony \u201cfabricated and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lascanas testified that he personally heard Duterte order killings in two instances while the other attacks were initiated by police officers supposedly on Duterte&#8217;s orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014A retired Philippine officer has linked President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was a mayor, and his men to nearly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}