Duterte’s latest threat has also spurred a wide debate on whether it was possible for the Philippines to break away from the UN.
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Mr Yasay said Mr Duterte has promised to uphold human rights in the fight against drugs and has ordered the police to investigate and prosecute offenders.
De Lima, who is the chairman of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights, will lead the two-day Senate joint committee hearing on Monday, along with Sen. Duterte has said he would bestow medals on the killers of drug dealers, and he’s also offered to award bounties to citizens who turn in drug suspects “dead or alive”.
The president of the Philippines has threatened to quit the United Nations in response to criticism from UN human rights officials over hundreds of extrajudicial killings of drug suspects that have occurred in the country since he took office.
Earlier, De Lima filed a resolution to dig deeper into these extra-judicial killings in relation to the war on illegal drugs. “If you are that disrespectful, son of a whore, then I will just leave you”, Duterte said in a press conference in his home city of Davao that started about 1:00 am. “You do not just go out and give a sh*tting statement against a country”.
So far, Duterte said 6,00,000 drug users and pushers have “surrendered” and taken the drug test since his administration launched the campaign after he took over the presidency on 30 June this year. You have done nothing.
“When were you here last time?”
The neophyte senator said that she could never betray people’s trust as being public servant.
“We call on the Philippines authorities to adopt with immediate effect the necessary measures to protect all persons from targeted killings and extrajudicial executions”, the new U.N. Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Agnes Callamard, said in the report.
President Rodrigo Duterte pointed to the haunting image of a bloodied child being pulled from the rubble of a missile-struck building in the Syrian city of Aleppo to note the inability of the USA and the United Nations to stop such deadly conflicts, complaining that he comes under fire for the killings of criminals.
Criticizing the U.N. for not doing enough to address hunger and terrorism and for not being able to do anything about Syria and Iraq and allowing big powers to bomb villages and kill innocent civilians, he said he would invite China and African nations to form another global organization.
While Philippine markets are in a good spot at the moment there are risks, according to Julian Wee, a senior market strategist at National Australia Bank Ltd. “People are still a bit edgy about the law and order situation that the new President is pursuing”, Wee said on Friday.
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The war on drugs has widespread support in the country, with Duterte enjoying a 91% approval rating at the end of July, largely on the back of his hard line on drug crime.
