Philippines Death Squad Killings -- Interview with Former Hitman. - "Published on May 20, 2014 (Manila, May 21, 2014) The Philippine government should investigate an alleged "death squad" implicated in several hundred killings in Tagum City on the southern island of Mindanao. Official police records obtained by Human Rights Watch show 298 killings between January 2007 and March 2013 that provincial police attributed to the "Tagum Death Squad," and for which no one has been prosecuted. http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/20/ph..."