“I have not killed nor ordered the killing of anyone.”
Rodrigo Duterte
Claim dated 5 Oct 2020.
Vera Files rated thisFlip-flop
What Vera Files found
President Duterte has categorically admitted to having killed "several" persons in previous public addresses and media interviews.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 5 October 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 14 October 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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