Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed former hitman, holds up a roll of tape, the type of which he claims he used on his victims, during a senate hearing on drug-related extra-judicial killings, in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines, September 15, 2016. REUTERS/Ezra Acayan
MANILA (Reuters) - A self-confessed hitman testified on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte personally issued assassination orders while mayor of a city where activists say hundreds of summary executions took place.
The president made no comment on the allegations on Thursday but his political allies dismissed them as lies.
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