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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/9/15/edgar-matobato-nppa-2-091516.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed member of the &quot;Davao Death Squad&quot;, delivers his testimony in a Senate hearing investigating the recent rampant extrajudicial killings and summary executions of suspected criminals. <em>Voltaire Domingo, NPPA</em></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>Self-confessed &quot;Davao Death Squad&quot; (DDS) member Edgar Matobato appeared at a Senate hearing on Thursday and linked former Davao City mayor and current President Rodrigo Duterte to a string of killings from 1988 up to 2013. </p><p>Here is a rough transcript of Matobato&#x27;s Senate testimony from the camp of Senator Leila de Lima, the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights looking into extra-judicial killings in the Duterte administration&#x27;s ongoing war on illegal drugs.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="false" frameBorder="0" height="600" id="doc_96928" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/324110238/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-qbqhWITv2WeFaFZrWQQo&amp;show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe></figure><p>READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/15/16/witness-to-de-lima-duterte-ordered-to-kill-you" target="_blank">Witness to De Lima: Duterte ordered to kill you</a></p><p>READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/15/16/the-davao-death-squad-and-rodrigo-duterte" target="_blank">The Davao Death Squad and Rodrigo Duterte</a></p>

<p>Self-confessed "Davao Death Squad" (DDS) member Edgar Matobato appeared at a Senate hearing on Thursday linking former Davao City mayor and current President Rodrigo Duterte to a string of killings from 1988 up to 2013.</p>

Self-confessed "Davao Death Squad" (DDS) member Edgar Matobato appeared at a Senate hearing on Thursday linking former Davao City mayor and current President Rodrigo Duterte to a string of killings from 1988 up to 2013.