President Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he wanted to create a death squad to match the New People's Army (NPA) Sparrow Unit during the Marcos regime. Duterte named his unit the "Duterte Death Squad," which he wanted to counter the communist rebels' capability to assassinate people. READ: Duterte wants to create 'death squad' to counter NPA's Sparrow Unit What is this so-called Sparrow Unit? The NPA's Sparrow Unit was active in the 1980s during the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos. The communist rebel group then created an urban guerrilla unit called the Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB), which consists of hit squads that kill government officials and suspec...
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