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Dec 01, 2018
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Although Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s office appears to be backing away from his Nov. 27 threat to form “death squads” to murder Communist rebels after talks have broken down, rights organizations are warning that all too often, such ideas take real form.

When they do, they are all too often – as they have been in a long and depressing history …

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