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The
Dinhing Dapita Sadya (DDS) is a vigilante
group active in Davao City in the Philippines
that is rumoured to exist. The group is allegedly responsible for summary
executions of individuals suspected of petty crimes and dealing in drugs in
Davao. It has been estimated that the group is responsible for the killing or
disappearance of between 1,020 and 1,040 people between 1998 and 2008.
A
team from Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND), a human
rights group, and investigators from the Commission on Human Rights
(CHR) discovered killing fields where skeletal remains of
victims of the death squads were dumped. Human Rights Commissioner
Dominador Calamba II has indicated that local executives and the police knew
the militants but were "seemingly tolerating" them. Human rights
groups said the killings have become an unwritten government policy to deal
with crime due to an ill-functioning criminal justice system and lack of due
process in the way authorities administered justice.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davao_Death_Squad
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