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DDS originally meant "Davao Death Squad," a notorious vigilante group allegedly under the control and leadership of then-longtime Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte. According to a Human Rights Watch report, this death squad supposedly targeted "young men known in their neighborhood for involvement in small-scale drug dealing or minor crimes such as petty theft and drug use," or gang members and street children. The report added:
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