Karl Norman Alonoz for the Presidential Communications Operations Office
75-year-old President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte spoke Friday with new threats of murders of drug dealers
Karl Norman Alonoz for the Presidential Communications Operations Office
75-year-old President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte spoke Friday with new threats of murders of drug traffickers in the country after the confiscation by police of the largest consignment of drugs with a market value of 5.1 billion pesos (more than 102 million dollars).
“If you destroy my country selling drugs, I will kill you”, – quotes Reuters Philippine President.
According to Duterte, the Philippines became a transit centre in South-East Asia for drug trafficking Mexican drug cartels.
Threats of the President of the Philippines to deal with the traffickers was caused by the confiscation by police this week 756 kg of crystal methamphetamine, the largest party during the stay Duterte in power in 2016.
On Thursday, the UN condemned the Philippines for extrajudicial killings in the course duterte initiated the campaign against drugs. The report released by the United Nations office at Geneva, said that the casualties could be “tens of thousands of people with almost complete impunity for the police and incited to violence of high-ranking officials”, reports TASS.
According to the Philippine authorities, from July 2016 during police anti-drug operations were killed 5600 people suspected of selling or drug use.
Duterte even as a presidential candidate, said he was willing to kill their own children if they try drugs.
After coming to power , he initiated in 2016 a tough campaign against drugs in the Philippines. According to international human rights organizations, during police operations in the country were killed by 5.6 thousand people involved in the production and sale of illicit substances. Position Duterte caused outrage abroad, as UN experts in human rights demanded an end to the “execution” of the suspects in respect to which was conducted the trial.
In August 2017, Rodrigo duterte called the police killed on the spot suspected drug dealers who resist arrest. The President incited violence and killings and other groups of citizens. In February 2018, he ordered the soldiers of the government army not to kill women-rebels, to shoot at their vaginas as it is, in his opinion, will make women useless. Human rights activists called the President a sexist.
Also Duterte called to shoot corrupt officials, and with the beginning of the pandemic coronavirus in violators of the quarantine. Bribes he also urged to drop from a height.
Duterte told me that when he was mayor of Davao city, he was pushed out of a flying helicopter of a man suspected in the kidnapping of a Chinese citizen. “I’ve done it before, why don’t I do it again?” said the Philippine leader also promised to deal harshly with corrupt officials.
Earlier Duterte admitted that he personally killed the alleged crimes.
A spokesman for Duterte Ernesto Abella later refused to consider the absolute truth to the story of the President on the “execution” using a helicopter. “So, let’s assume this is an urban legend,” evasively said Abella.
In the same vein, expressed and Duterte. “That’s not true. I don’t have a helicopter. Even if it were true, I would still not admitted,” – said the head of state.