“License to Kill”

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exchange of gunfire ensued, killing the suspect, in whose possession police found six sachets containing drugs, live bullets and a gun. 98 Uniformed police showed Sumangue’s relatives his body in the house immediately after the shooting, and what appeared to be a .45 caliber handgun next to his body. Family members told Human Rights Watch that Sumangue did not possess a gun and therefore could not possibly have attempted to shoot at the police. They believe the police planted the gun on Sumangue’s body in an attempt to justify his killing. “He cannot even pay the rent, his sister paid the rent for him,” a relative told Human Rights Watch, questioning where he would have obtained the money to get a gun. 99 Renato Badando, July 7 Barangay 621, Santa Maria, Manila In 2008, police arrested Renato Badando, 41, on suspicion of involvement in a robbery, for which he subsequently spent nearly eight years in prison. 100 After his release around March 2016, he found occasional work operating a trolley along the railroad tracks where he lived in a shack with his wife. He was an occasional shabu user “when there was money to buy it,” but not a dealer, according to relatives. 101 On the night of July 7, a large police anti-drug operation took place in Badando’s neighborhood, waking up his wife. Badando told her not to worry, as he had not been listed on the neighborhood’s watch list, and urged her to go back to bed. An hour later, a policeman knocked on their shack and identified himself, and asked about the whereabouts of some of their neighbors. 102 98 Itchie G. Cabayan and Rhea Parsad, “2 Gangmen-cum-drug pushers shot dead,” Journal Online, July 4, 2016, http://www.journal.com.ph/news/metro/2-gangmen-cum-drug-pushers-shot-dead. 99 Human Rights Watch interview with relative of Ogie Sumangue, name withheld, October 18, 2016. 100 Abigail Kwok, “Cops nab 4 robbery suspects in Quezon City,” Inquirer.net, September 9, 2008, https://abikwok.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/cops-nab-4-robbery-suspects-in-qc/. See also, Human Rights Watch interview with relative of Renato Badando, name withheld, Santa Maria, October 21, 2016. 101 Ibid. 102 Ibid. LICENSE TO KILL 46
Approximately 30 minutes after the first police visit, a group of seven armed and masked men in civilian dress kicked open the door of Badando’s shack. They ordered Badando to come with them “for checking,” allowing Badando, who had been sleeping, to put on a shirt and take his wallet with identification. Soon thereafter, his relatives heard a gunshot, followed by several more, and rushed to a nearby riverside dock. 103 By the time they arrived at the scene just minutes later, the media and uniformed police had already arrived, and the plainclothes men who had arrested him—evidently police officers—were standing over Badando’s body. Police officials told the relatives that they found a .45 caliber handgun, packets of shabu, and money on Badando. However, a relative interviewed by Human Rights Watch disputes this claim, stressing that Badando had been taken by the police from his own home: “When he was taken from the house, he had been half-naked sleeping, and the police allowed him to put on a shirt and take his wallet with ID. We don’t own a gun, and we don’t have so much shabu, and we don’t have money. All of that was planted [by the police].” 104 Edward Sentorias, July 8 Don Bosco, Tondo, Manila Edward Sentorias, 34, a father of three boys, was jobless after being injured in a welding accident. According to his relatives, both he and his live-in partner were shabu users, and lived in the house that belonged to his partner’s parents, who were in prison for drug dealing. 105 The relatives believe the police incorrectly assumed that Sentorias and his partner had taken over the drug dealing business of her parents. When the government’s Operation Double Barrel began, Sentorias rejected his relatives’ pleading to surrender to the local officials, telling them that the local officials were shabu addicts long before he was. 106 103 Ibid. 104 Ibid. 105 Human Rights Watch interview with relative of Edward Santorias, name withheld, Tondo, October 19, 2016. 106 Ibid. 47 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | MARCH 2017
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agree to be together or not, whethe
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statement, stating, “Please formu
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suspected drug dealers and drug use
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