Duterte said in a speech late Monday that threats to investigate him locally or by global organizations like the United Nations over possible human rights violations would not stop him from proceeding with the drug crackdown. “I will tell them f-k you”, he said in an address to government officials Tuesday in the southern city of Davao, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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Last week, the European Union adopted a five-page resolution calling on the Philippine government to “put an end to the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings”.
After unleashing anger at the United States and the United Nations, Duterte on Tuesday lashed out at the bloc of 28 European states, saying they were hypocrites in calling him out over the rising number of drug-related killings in the Philippines.
The 71-year-old Duterte overwhelmingly won election in May on an audacious promise to eradicate corruption and crime, particularly illegal drugs, in six months.
Duterte was elected in May on the back of violent anti-drug rhetoric that promised to wipe out the country’s illicit drug trade in three to six months.
“Sinong pinatay ko (who did I kill)?”
“I told them “f– you”.
Duterte has dismissed criticism of his war on drugs, including allegations made by rights groups at home and overseas of extrajudicial killings.
He also claimed that European countries were trying to “atone” for past sins with their calls to stop bloodshed, and expressed outrage that such countries had the “gall” to “condemn” him. Criminals? You call it genocide?
“What the people have to realize is that this is not just an offense against me, but against everyone”, she said in a statement.
Duterte, however, stressed that it was drug suspects’ “co-conspirators” who are behind the brutal killings to silence them.
He said he would not be cowed by various investigations meant to discredit his crackdown on illegal drugs.
Duterte, whose bloody campaign on drugs has drawn the ire of worldwide communities, on Tuesday used the “F” word not once but twice when commenting on the European body expressing concerns over his government’s hardline stance.
The Senate is investigating alleged extrajudicial killings in Duterte’s anti-crime crackdown that police said has left more than 3,140 people dead in his first 72 days in office.
He said, “They have chosen different way to ease their feeling but those 1700 people killed were Criminals”.
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Past targets of Mr. Duterte’s profanity include Pope Francis, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. President Barack Obama.
