Eighty bodies have been found with cardboard signs proclaiming them to be drug dealers, he said.
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“… I guarantee to them that if anyone will try to invade, it will be bloody and we will not give it to them easily.
The president’s campaign against drugs has broad public support, and dela Rosa said members of the public were pleased by what he asserted was an immediate reduction in all categories of crime once the police effort began.
“The unlawful and deliberate killing carried out by order of a state actor, or with the state’s complicity or acquiescence, is an extrajudicial execution”, Amnesty said in a statement released Wednesday. “As I was presenting yesterday”, he said, “there were people killed”. Antonio Trillanes about the police response to 1,160 drug-related killings that have occurred since the beginning of July. “We have nothing to do with the vigilante killings”. She said her parents were police informants killed by corrupt officers who took drugs for themselves. CNN could not independently verify the figures the government provided.
“No, there is also no specific plans to visit the U.S. as well, as I understand it, he has indicated that he will not be able to attend because of his pressing schedule, the UN General Assembly in New York”, Yasay said.
According to him, Philippine government would have to find “what way can we best defend our country”.
“De Lima, you are finished”, Duterte told a news conference in Davao City in the south of the country where he used to be mayor and built his reputation as a ruthless crime fighter.
While human rights groups have expressed concern that violence is quickly getting out of control and people are ignoring laws in apprehending suspects, a survey conducted by Pulse Asia last month showed that 91 percent of respondents said they trust Duterte.
The president added that those cases are “still human rights violations”. On Sunday, he threatened to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations after the worldwide body criticized his violent efforts to curb drug use in the country.
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The United Nations has also called on Duterte to stop the killings, saying allegations of drug-trafficking should be judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets. “Maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations”.
