“When I was mayor, that was okay but it is different now because I am the president”. I will tell them, fuck you. “You are doing it in atonement for your sins”, Duterte said in a speech before local government officials in Davao City. Since he took office in June, there have been more than 3,000 people killed by Philippine police waging a violent war against narcotics.
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“The European Union and the Philippines enjoy good relations, and we will continue to discuss this issue, among many others, in our bilateral contacts and with the authorities”, EU Ambassador Franz Jessen said in a statement. US President Barack Obama cancelled a meeting with Mr Duterte after he was said to have called him a “son of a whore”, and he called UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a “fool” days later.
Duterte’s crackdown on drugs, core to a colorful election campaign likened to that of United States presidential candidate Donald Trump, has claimed more than 3,800 lives since his June 30 inauguration.
Mr Duterte said the European Union parliament was acting out of guilt after it called on him to halt “the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings”. Duterte has more recently said he would need an additional six months to complete his plan.
Mr. Duterte singled out France and the United Kingdom for joining the U.S.in attacking countries in the Middle East in recent years and said history books were littered with examples of atrocities committed by Europeans.
Referring to the victims of his bloody war on drugs, President Duterte proclaimed: “Who are they?”
“They’re taking the high ground to assuage their feelings of guilt”.
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”.
“Assuming it to be true – 1700, who are they?” Criminals? You call it genocide?
“And then the European Union now has the gall to condemn me”.
“And then the European Union has the gall to condemn me”, he said, flashing a raised middle finger as he spoke in front of local officials in Davao.
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“If you massacre a hundred and you also number a hundred, why, all of you will get pardons”.
