According to the Inquirer, he said that the European Union now has the gall to condemn me.
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“The Philippine Senate has ousted the chair of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights in an app arent reprisal for her inquiry into the surge in killings linked to President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs”, the group said.
Mr Duterte said the European Union parliament was acting out of guilt after it called on him to halt “the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings”.
Speaking in his home town city of Davao after the European Union parliament called for better monitoring of human rights abuses, Duterte didn’t appear to take to kindly to the issue.
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.
Duterte’s war on drugs, the key plank of a poll campaign likened to that of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, has claimed more than 3,800 lives from July 1 to September 18. Not fan of lecturing on human rights, Duterte has since courted controversy for allegedly calling US President Barack Obama a “son of bitch”, the remark which he then retracted as not “personal” after their bilateral meeting at the ASEAN summit in Laos was cancelled. “I’m telling them, ‘Fuck you, ‘” Mr Duterte said in a mixture of Filipino and English in his televised speech.
President Duterte finally broke his silence last night and said self-confessed “executioner” Edgar Matobato’s testimony before the Senate last week was nothing but a lie. “I repeat it, “f*** you”.
“So when I started to press everybody, it was like a worm out of a can and no one could have believed that there would be about 700,000 new guys, maybe in the drug business that have surrendered to the police and the military”, Duterte was quoted as saying.
He also said he ran a brothel and had been pressured to sell drugs to raise money for her election campaign, but had refused.
But Malacañang’s nod was unlikely since Mr. Duterte has been cussing at global leaders and organizations that criticize his war on drugs, that has left over 3,000 suspects dead, both from police encounters and killings by unknown vigilantes. The senate hearing resumed Thursday with the new chairman Sen.
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.
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Last week, Duterte said there are about 1,000 names in the third narco list, which was still undergoing validation.
