Many Filipinos, perceiving a culture of impunity, are impressed that Duterte takes a hard line against corrupt cops as well as against street criminals, Sullivan says. “Within the year, maybe”. “Many will be unhappy, but I think the bigger picture is that I would have something to live by for my country”.
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President Duterte had previously promised to launch a “bloody war” on drugs.
He said the number had gone up even since he gave evidence on Monday, where he gave a figure of 1,800 deaths.
He said 43 policemen on the drug list of the President who surrendered to Dela Rosa have been transferred to the PNP’s personnel holding and accounting unit.
He said that the stats would be legitimate.
There we have it, the president was just “hangry”.
Responding to questioning by Sen. On Tuesday, Dela Rosa said he had suspended five officers connected with that case as it’s investigated. Duterte smiled and said: “You reporters say that and then we will be the ones accused of saying that”. “Take us out of your organization. They’re happy with what the police are doing”.
Some even see Mr. Duterte’s violent and highly controversial anti-drugs campaign as potentially positive. At the press conference, he said the police did not carry out the extrajudicial killings.
He said the aim of the drug war was to save the youth and succeeding generations from the scourge of illegal drugs.
Though Duterte’s critics are numerous, among Filipinos his trust rating in July was a historically high 91 percent.
However, backing for his policies isn’t unanimous, and Sen. Duterte accused De Lima of having an affair with her former married driver.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr (right) and Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua (left) exchange pleasantries during Zhao’s courtesy call on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on July 7, 2016.
She claims the war is a “very important issue of public interest”, saying that even the worldwide community has taken notice of “this phenomenon of summary executions”.
Dela Rosa also faced grilling from Sen.
De la Rosa pointed this out to senators on the second day of the Senate’s two-day probe into the alleged extra judicial killings and summary executions. Many of those have been attributed to vigilantes.
Almost 700,000 drug users and drug peddlers have turned themselves in to escape the crackdown, police chief dela Rosa said. He insisted that the police were not involved in the deaths.
Duterte’s war on drugs has so far resulted in hundreds of drug-related deaths. Some of those killed outside of police operations were found wrapped in duct tape while others were found with cardboard signs alleging their involvement in the illegal drug trade, he added. “I hope this hearing will help bring a resolution to the drug problem”, he said.
“The PNP remains loyal to our mandate”. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Local politicians, the United States, and the U.N. have started voicing concern about human rights violations as the country ramps up its fight against drugs.
Raising the issue at a summit in Laos of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, together with its “dialogue partners” including China, the United States and Japan, would inevitably compound China’s anger.
For starters, Yasay said the media should have cut the president some slack when he made scathing comments against the United Nations “because he was once again confronted with global criticisms of the killings attributed to his war on drugs”.
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He addressed the Senate as part of an ongoing investigation into the massive drug crackdown, which has prompted criticism from the United Nations and human rights organizations, which say the mass execution of suspected drug dealers violates global norms.
