Duterte’s Calculated Gamble

Former Philippine president seeks to avoid international prosecution

By: Viswa Nathan

Quite a few eyebrows were raised last week when the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte went to testify at the Senate inquiry committee investigating the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects during his term of office and calmly admitted that while he was the mayor of Davao he had a death squad, and both as city mayor and later…