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Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, ordered gangland-style killings of more than 1,000 people before he was elected, his former hitman has claimed.
The controversial leader, who is waging a bloody war on crime by encouraging his citizens to carry out vigilante killings, was also said to have fed his enemies to crocodiles.
And in one incident, the hitman said, Mr Duterte gunned down a justice official with an Uzi machine gun after a roadside shootout.
Speaking at a senate inquiry into a spate of extra-judicial killings committed under Mr Duterte's rule, Edgar Matobato said he and several others carried out the murders over a 25-year period …. http://www.telegraph.co.uk