“I’m telling them, ‘F**k you, ‘” Duterte said during a speech yesterday.
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“I will write them a letter to invite them for an investigation”, Duterte said, adding he is willing to participate in an open forum that may be held at the Philippine Senate or a local theater as part of the probe.
In the same speech delivered on Tuesday, President Duterte made the case that the EU’s critical stand on human rights abuses stems from “guilt feelings” for past atrocities.
De Lima’s ouster “is a blatant and craven move to derail accountability for the appalling death toll from President Rodrigo Duterte’s abusive ‘war on drugs, ‘” US -based Human Rights Watch said.
President Rodrigo Duterte unleashed a string of tirades against the European Union on Tue, Sep 20, after the European Union condemned the wave of killings under his administration.
The Philippine president said Sunday that he may need to extend a bloody government anti-drug campaign that has left more than 3,000 people dead and been slammed by the United States and others.
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.
“Now the European Union has the gall to condemn me”.
“As to the specific, comprehensive policies and programs in compliance with human rights, plans for the construction of drug rehabilitation centers are now underway”.
Mr Duterte apologised last month for calling Barack Obama a “son of a whore” after he expressed concerns. But who did I kill?
Archbishop Socrates Villegas, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, issued a statement to be read in churches earlier.
According to the Philippine National Police (PNP), more than 1,000 alleged drug users and dealers have been killed in legitimate police operations while almost 20,000 have been arrested throughout the country. “Criminals. You call that genocide”, he said.
Senator Leila de Lima, Duterte’s most vocal critic, has questioned the president’s crackdown that resulted in more than 3,500 deaths, many of them caused by vigilantes.
“He is a bigot and I am not”, the president said.
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She has faced an intense backlash from Duterte supporters, who have vilified her as “a coddler and a protector”, in her words, of the country’s drug syndicates. “That’s why I’m bullshitting all of them”, he was quoted saying.
