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President Rodrigo Duterte, been reminded drug they can't masagip
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Duterte:
Killing criminals not a crime against humanity
(philstar.com) | Updated March 2, 2017 - 8:50pm
MANILA,
Philippines — Killing criminals is not a crime against humanity because they
have no humanity.
This was
President Rodrigo Duterte’s response to the report of New York-based Human
Rights Watch which claimed that the Philippines is in the midst of a “human
rights calamity” because of the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug
offenders.
“When
you kill criminals that is not a crime against humanity. The criminals have no
humanity. God damn it,” the president told reporters during the
groundbreaking of the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway.
Unfazed by
critics who blame him for the deaths of drug suspects, Duterte said the
killings would not stop as long as there are drug lords and pushers.
“Marami pang
patayan to. Lumalaban talaga yan. (There will be many
more killings. They are really fighting). It will not end tomorrow for as long
as there is a drug pusher and drug lord,” Duterte said.
“Lahat naman
sila lumaban. Yung hindi lumaban sa gobyerno hindi amin yun. Baka pari ang
kalaban nila (All of them fought. Those who did not
fight the government, we are not responsible for them. Maybe their enemies are
the priests),” he added.
“Yung
namatay (Those who died) during encounters, of course, I answer for them, I
hold myself legally responsible.”
Duterte said
there is a difference between killing an innocent person and killing a
criminal.
“They
ought not to be mixed up... I’m trying to zero in on law and order because
peace is what makes a country developed and progressive. I hold it as an
article of faith,” he said.
To support
his claim that the narcotics problem in the country is serious, Duterte said
about 6,000 policemen and 40 percent of barangay captains in the country are
into illegal drugs.
Duterte
lamented that the killing of suspected drug offenders was presented
melodramatically and “played up” by the media.
“This won’t
stop if we don’t get rid of the apparatus,” he said. “Who wants to kill
people?”
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Rodrigo Duterte’s warning to criminals.
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President Duterte
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Duterte
assailed the Catholic Church again for criticizing the spate of killings tied
to his war on drugs. He claimed that the Church has not been transparent on the
funds it collected from parishioners.
“Where is the
money of the faithful?” the president said during the oath taking of the
officials of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lapu-Lapu City.
“Sige yaw yaw
mga pari, wala naman kayong ginagawa (You keep on talking but you do nothing),”
he added. “When were you really true to your vocation?”
Duterte said
he would order every precinct commander all over the country to provide the
priests a list of persons who are involved in drugs. He also claimed that the
destruction of some churches in the country was a message from God.
“You
know why God destroyed the churches? To show you that you are not deserving of
his mercy,” he said.
Duterte
reiterated that he does not intend to declare martial law and to suspend the
privilege of writ of habeas of corpus to address the drug problem.
“I
took my oath of office. The Constitution says there is martial law, law and
order, It’s all here. They are all in my hands. My oath before God and country
is to preserve the Filipino people period,” Duterte
said.
“I
do not need martial law. I do not need to declare a suspension of habeas
corpus, you destroy my country, you destroy the youth, I don’t give a
s***.”
INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/03/02/1677427/duterte-killing-criminals-not-crime-against-humanity
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