And no one can say they weren’t warned. The rest were killed by police. You must really overcome it. And if he fights, and he fights to death, you can kill him.
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A legal expert, Jose Manuel Diokno, said Duterte’s latest shoot-to-kill order is, at the least, legally questionable. That figure pales in comparison to the 192 criminal suspects slain by police between 10 May and 10 July. A sign on a cardboard found near the body reads: “Pusher Ako”, which translates to “I am a drug pusher”.
The campaign has drawn condemnation from some quarters, with Human Rights Watch calling the surge in killings unacceptable and a failure to protect human rights. “Well, that’s very dramatic”.
“Double your efforts. Triple them, if need be”.
“We will survive as a nation without you”, Duterte said, referring to miners. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. “It’s a war, it’s not a crisis”. The proposed changes to the licences, which are supported by the new Duterte administration, would increase the government’s share of mining revenues. “But we can not base our reactions to these killings on the popularity of the president”.
“(The) government is here to save our people from the drug menace and punish the offenders, including the big-time ones.
De Lima, who investigated Duterte over extra-judicial killings when he was mayor, decried what she said was “propaganda” on social media that portrayed her as a protector of criminals.
Duterte has dismissed the images as “melodramatic”. We will only be trading drug addiction with another more malevolent kind of addiction.
The country’s top broadcaster, ABS-CBN, reported that 603 people had been killed since Duterte was elected, with 211 murdered by unidentified gunmen.
While President Duturte and his month-long war on drugs remain highly popular, the dramatic increase in summary executions is worrying to many. If the objective of worldwide drug control is protecting “the health and welfare of mankind”, this must stop. She conceded he was a drug user but said it was impossible he was a dealer because they were too poor and could barely pay for their next meal.
Between 1 January and 15 June, 68 suspects were killed during “anti-drug operations”. So far, nearly 100,000 people have surrendered to the local authorities, pledging to quit using illegal drugs.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows greatly concern over the reports of “extrajudicial killing” of suspected drug dealers and users in the Philippines, the office chief said on Wednesday in Vienna.
“I will not hesitate to kill you… don’t think that you’re a governor or a mayor”, Duterte said, repeating the warning he made in Davao.
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The tough talk is reaching down through the chain of command, and other officials have echoed Duterte’s language.
