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NOTES

1

ABS-CBN News report, citing Digital Global Overview, January 25, 2017.

2

“Murder Rate Highest in Davao City—PNP,” citing Philippine National Police statistics, Philippine Star, April 2, 2016.

3

Taped interview with Senator Antonio Trillanes, by author, New York City, July 20, 2017.

4

Confidential conversation with a journalist who has covered Duterte’s political career. Duterte later made the claim himself while speaking to a Filipino expatriate group in Vietnam, on November 10, 2017.

5

“Philippines’ Duterte Likens Himself to Hitler, Wants to Kill Millions of Drug Users,” Reuters News, September 29, 2016.

6

“The Kill List,” Philippine Inquirer, July 7, 2016.

7

“How a Secretive Police Squad Racked up Kills in Duterte’s Anti-Drug War,” Reuters Special Report, December 19, 2017.

8

Isagani E. Medina, “A Historical Reconstruction of the Juramentado/ Sablallah Ritual,” Anuaryo/Annales: Journal of History, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1993.

9

“How The PNP’s One-Time, Big-Time Operations Work,” Rappler, August 27, 2017.

10

“Trillanes: ‘Dragon-like’ Tattoo Links Paolo Duterte to ‘Triad’,” Philippine Inquirer, September 7, 2017.

11

“Ombudsman Insists on Constitutional Duty to Probe Duterte,” Rappler, October 1, 2017.

12

“Resignation Never an Option for SC Chief Sereno,” Rappler, October 1, 2017.

13

“Capitalist Villar Is Communist Party’s Bet for 2010,” GMA Network News, December 24, 2009.

14

Delfin Mallari Jr. and Jodee A. Agoncillo, “NPA: 15 Dead in Batangas Were Ours,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 4, 2017.

15

Zea Io Ming Capistrano, “Reds Vow to Overthrow Duterte,” Davao Today, December 19, 2017.