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Blood on their hands. i want him to pay for what he did, for the many killings he ordered he says. if we bring back the death penalty, i hope duterte is the first to hang. and then i will follow. decades before the president took his bloody war on drugs nationwide, says he was part of a group known in the philippines as -- death squad. found committing hundreds of murders, targeting street children and criminals all during duterte's decade's long run as crime fighting mayor beginning in 1988. i personally killed around 50 people he says. he shows us a journal with names and dates of some of hi...

>> reporter: edgar matobato says he and philippine president have something in common, they both have blood on their hands. >> translator: i want him to pay for what he did, for the many killings he ordered, he says. if we bring back the death penalty, i hope duerte is the first to hang. and then i will follow. decades before the president took his bloody war on drugs nationwide, matobato says he was part of a group known in the philippines as devout death suede. a 2008 investigation found a shadowy band of assassins was committing hundreds of murders, targeting street children and criminals, ...

Decades-long run as the southern city's gun-toting, crime-fighting mayor, beginning in 1988. i personally killed around 50 people, he says. he shows us a journal with names and dates of some of his victims, written by his wife, because he can't read or write. he also showed his davao city i.d. he said he was a ghost employee, earning just $100 a month to murder on command. >> who was ordering the death squad to kill all these people? we got the orders from mayor duterte, he says. cnn cannot verify his story, but his graphic testimony in september before a senate hearing on vigilante killings s...

Follow. decades before the president took his bloody war on drugs nationwide, matobato says he was part of a group known in the philippines as the devout death squad, a 2008 u.n. investigation found the shadowy band of asa assassins wer assassins was committing hundreds of murders as the gun-toting, crime fighting mayor beginning in 1988. i personally killed around 50 people, matobato says. he shows us a journal with names and dates as some of his victims written by his wife because he can't read or write. matobato showed his city i.d. saying he was a ghost employee earning $100 a month to mur...