“I will tell them, ‘f**k you.’ You’re doing it in atonement for your sins”, the Inquirer quoted Duterte as saying in a speech before local government officials in Davao City.
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President Rodrigo Duterte gives a speech during his visit to the 9th Infantry Division Spear Troopers at Camp Elias Angeles in Camarines Sur on September 21, 2016.
However, Duterte had to face a lot of criticism from the United States, the European Union parliament and the United Nations over what they say are extrajudicial killings. I repeat: “F*** you”.
Duterte, who took office more than two months ago, won the May elections in a landslide on a promise to kill thousands of criminals.
President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte flips the bird earlier this year.
On Monday, legislators voted 16 to 4 to unseat de Lima, after Duterte’s allies said the witness she brought before the investigatory panel last week had tarnished the country’s worldwide image.
“If (a criminal) fights, and he fights to the death, you can kill him”, he said.
He accused various European Union members, namely France and Great Britain, of being hypocrites for criticizing him given their own record of killing Arabs.
On Sunday, Duterte said he would like to enlarge his crime war for another six months because the drug problem was not like ever before.
The EU parliament last week said it was concerned about the “extraordinarily high numbers killed during police operations.in the context of an intensified anti-crime and anti-drug campaign”.
Duterte has also branded US President Barack Obama a “son of a whore” and Ban a “fool” after both expressed concern over the killings.
European Union politicians said in a resolution that Duterte has “publicly stated he would not pursue law enforcement officers and citizens who killed drug dealers who resisted arrest”, and that he should investigate abuses of power “in full compliance with national and worldwide obligations and respect for human rights”.
Duterte has always been accused of either sanctioning or tolerating the vigilante-style killings of alleged criminals, from the time he was mayor of Davao City on the southern island of Mindanao, because of his pronouncements suggesting that.
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Among the apparent victims of the war of drugs was a daughter of the late British baron Lord Moynihan, police said on Monday. I asked who is coming.
