For the first time, a serving Police Officer has revealed 10 newly formed and highly secretive police special operations teams, – “hooded and dressed in all black” – to get “rid the streets of unwanted citizens,” exclusive report on October 4 by The Guardian.
“It is the unknown side of Duterte’s dirty drug war – but it hasn’t come out of nowhere,” said The Guardian.
“The allegations from the officer are shocking,” it added.
“Although the Guardian can verify the policeman’s rank and his service history, there is no independent, official confirmation for the allegations of state complicity and police coordination in mass murder,” the report said.
In the past three months he claims dozens of individuals have been killed – or in Philippine police talk, “neutralised” – by this officer and his “special ops” team alone.
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