Mayor builds a deadly model in stopping crime - PI

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The tough-talking Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is either a model for other leaders of crime-ridden Philippine cities or a thinly disguised bully who has taken the law into his own hands

REUTERS , DAVAO, PHILIPPINES
Friday, Feb 20, 2004,Page 9

When the men on black motorbikes came for her husband, Mona was six months pregnant and riding with him in the front seat of a taxi.

It didn't matter to the gunmen. By the time they had finished, the vehicle was riddled with bullets and four people were dead, including Mona's husband, who had been released from a police station just moments earlier.

As tears flow, other women tell their stories.

Clarita lost three sons to mysterious death squads. Ludja's eldest son was bundled into the back of a van and shot months after her youngest son met a similar fate. Byuda's 18-year-old son was shot in front of her house.

The women, who come from the slums of the southern Philippine city of Davao, admit their men and boys were no angels.

But they place heavy blame on one man for their sorrow -- Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.

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