Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted he personally killed criminal suspects as mayor of Davao.

It is the first such entrance he has created since becoming chief executive in July, but reflects feedback he produced in 2015.
He ran the southeast town for 20 years, making a good name for reducing criminal activity, and critique for supposedly assisting loss of life teams.
Mr Duterte was discussing to business management at the presidential structure on Thursday, before a different journey.
It is the newest in a group of questionable and sometimes contrary feedback by Mr Duterte.
"In Davao I used to do it individually. Just to display to the people [police] that if I can do it why can't you," he said.
"And I'd go around in Davao with a motorbike, with a big bicycle around, and I would just patrol the roads, looking for problems also. I was really looking for a conflict so I could destroy."
It echoed feedback he produced in 2015, when he confessed eliminating at least three men alleged of kidnapping and sexual assault in Davao.
But just time before his newest comments, he was adament "I am not a killer", in an address for The Excellent Philippine Prizes 2016. He has also formerly both recognized and declined being engaged with loss of life teams.

In Sept a Us senate query observed statement from a self-confessed former loss of life team participant that Mr Duterte had, while being Davao gran, taken deceased a rights division broker with an Uzi submachine gun.
Nearly 6,000 people are said to have been murdered by cops, vigilantes and mercenaries since Mr Duterte released his medication war after being chosen in May. He has indicated few remorse about the plan, once saying: "Hitler massacred three thousand Jewish people... There's three thousand medication lovers. I'd be glad to slaughter them."
Mr Duterte has continuously said he does not care about individual privileges and has recommended that attorneys protecting medication thinks might also be focused in his strategy, says the BBC's Jonathan Go.

Some individual privileges attorneys believe the frank president's start assistance for a shoot-to-kill plan by the cops could make him insecure to rights for criminal offenses against humankind at the worldwide judge.