No less than 700,000 drug pushers and addicts have surrendered to the police and military since Rodrigo Duterte took over as the president of the Philippines.
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After lambasting the United Nations, the United States and its president and Nobel laureate, Barack Obama, the European Union is the latest high-profile recipient of a Duterte dressing-down that has become part of his appeal to millions of Filipinos.
Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in Philippines in the campaign against illegal narcotics trade since Duterte won the May elections in a landslide victory and came to power.
The police say that they have arrested more than 2,700 people on charges related to using or selling illegal drugs, and that crime nationwide has fallen 13 percent since the election, to 46,600 reported crimes in June, from 52,950 in May.
Duterte said that the imperial histories of European nations meant that they had no right to criticize his spiraling drug war.
The call of the European Parliament to launch an immediate investigation is already being addressed as President Duterte has already instructed authorities to look into these incidents and bring the perpetrators to justice, Andanar explained.
The new list includes more elected government officials such as village chiefs or “barangay captains”, Duterte said.
De Lima has had a running feud with Duterte. “What the spoiled eggs America and Europe think is that the killing of Filipinos is an old issue and they are now focusing on human rights”.
“I don’t care about that”, he said Thursday.
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De Lima vehemently denies all the allegations against her, saying the witnesses were prisoners and former prison officials with an axe to grind or people who were being pressured by her political opponents. The motion to remove her was brought by Manny Pacquiao, the senator and boxer.
Obama brushed aside the insult, saying he understood Duterte, who has a reputation for vulgarity, was demonstrating his well-established vernacular. Duterte said they had his full backing to do so.
Teodoro Locsin Jr., the country’s next permanent representative to the United Nations, on Wednesday told the European Union to fix its own problems before meddling with domestic issues.
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“Even if he asked for one year extension, there is no problem with me for as long as he continues the fight”, Sotto said in a Senate media interview.
