Duterte
Says ‘Spare No One’ as Islamic State Beheads Police Chief, Stages Mass Prison
Break
by24 May 2017
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to expand a 60-day state of emergency in southern Mindanao to the whole country should the Maute group, a terrorist organization that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), expand its killing spree beyond the island.
Duterte, who arrived home from an
abbreviated trip to Russia Wednesday, elaborated on the implications of martial
law on the island. The president suspended the writ of habeas corpus and
announced that police would no longer require a warrant on the island to arrest
anyone suspected of being a member of the terrorist group.
“Checkpoints will be allowed.
Searches will be allowed. Arrest without a warrant will be allowed in
Mindanao,”
Duterte explained. “And I do not need
to secure any search warrant or a warrant of arrest. If you are identified
positively on the other side, you can be arrested and detained.”
“Anyone caught possessing a
gun and confronting us with violence, my orders are shoot to kill. I will not
hesitate to do it,”
he vowed. “If I think that you should die, you
will die. If you fight us, you will die. If there is an open defiance, you will
die.”
“Anyone now holding a gun,
confronting government with violence, my orders are spare no one, let us solve
the problems of Mindanao once and for all. Do not force my hands into it,” he added. Duterte added
that he was mulling an order to allow civilians to use their legally purchased
guns against Maute terrorists and carry them publicly to deter violence.
Duterte added the rare warning that he
would not allow police to abuse human rights with impunity. “I will assure you I am not willing to allow abuses. Government
is still running, the Congress is functioning, and the courts are open for
citizens to seek grievance,” he assured residents.
These clarifications followed comments
on the flight back from Moscow, where he compared himself to predecessor
Ferdinand Marcos, who also declared martial law. “I was asked how I would
deal with terrorism. I said I’d be harsh. I told everyone, ‘do not force my
hand into it,” he told reporters in a Facebook Live video posted
by Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha
Uson.
In that video, Duterte said he hoped to
be able to lift the martial law order as soon as possible but could not guarantee
a swift end to the crisis in Mindanao, where he currently resides. “If it would take a year to do it then we’ll do it. If it’s
over in a month I’d be happy,” he said.
Mindanao is home to a large Muslim
population and has birthed multiple Muslim insurgencies, particularly the
ISIS-affiliated Abu Sayyaf and Maute group. The Maute group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2015 after its
leaders established the “Khalifa Islamiah Mindanao” (“Mindanao Islamic
Caliphate”) in 2012. Maute and Abu Sayyaf operate independently of each other
despite their allegiance to ISIS, though they have pledged to aid each other.
The bond between Maute and Abu Sayyaf
apparently triggered the wave of violence that spread throughout the island
this week. Philippine police raided the
home of Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon, triggering a rapid response
from Maute jihadists, who stormed Marawi city, beheaded a local police chief,
freed more than 100 jihadists at a local prison, and took a priest and Catholic
believers praying at a local church hostage. Witnesses say Maute fighters have raised the Islamic State flag over
the city from local mosques and burned down numerous Catholic and government
buildings.
In addition to freeing an estimated 107
jihadists from a Mindanao prison, the Maute terrorists reportedly stole government vehicles to use in
bringing the fugitives to their stronghold in Marawi.
For months, Duterte has warned that the collapse of
the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq would present a danger to the
Philippines. “Once the terrorists of the Middle East are deprived of the
land area, the real estate area where they can sleep,” Duterte warned in
November 2016, “they will wander to other places and they will come here and we
have to prepare for that.”
Should ISIS surface in the Philippines, Duterte
said then, “forget about human rights.”
“I will not just simply allow my people
to be slaughtered for the sake of human rights; that’s bullshit,” he added.
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‘Don’t f**k
with me about ISIS’: Duterte invokes Eastwood, Jesse James in anti-militia
pledge
Rodrigo
Duterte warned that the Philippines could “implode“ if the ongoing Islamist
insurgency is not quashed immediately. “I am willing to
gamble with martial law. And I will put a stop to it,” he added.
In a press
conference Wednesday Duterte made an emphatic statement to world leaders who
have accused the Philippines president of human rights abuses while dealing
with the recent Islamist insurrection in the south of the country.
“Don’t
f**k with me about ISIS,” Duterte stated, leaving no doubts as to his plans
for the Islamic State-affiliated militias who have besieged the southern city
of Marawi.
Invoking
Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, Billy the Kid and Jesse James, Duterte said he
would be “happy to give up the presidency and spend the rest of [his] life in
prison, so long as it was for the Filipino people.”
The president
wasted no time in declaring martial law on his native island of Mindanao
following the latest incursion by the IS-affiliated militants and a failed nighttime
raid by government forces on the city of Marawi on Tuesday.
The strongman
president has long threatened such action against the Maute and Abu Sayyaf
jihadist groups in the majority-Christian nation but the latest outbreak of
violence has escalated the situation to the brink of chaos.
"I have always said do not force my
hand into it because if I start to declare martial law, I will solve all the
problems of Mindanao connected with law and order," Duterte said upon arrival in the Philippines after
a truncated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"I was asked what would be my
response to terrorism and I said I would be harsh and harsh in enforcing the
law," Duterte
added, as cited by Reuters.
While he thanked the US government for “helping
on the technical side,” he criticized both the Obama and Trump
administrations for frustrating arms sales to the Philippines to help quash the
insurgency, given its international reputation as “a human rights violator.”
When asked about the ongoing hostage situation in
the province, Duterte was unusually diplomatic.
“We will try to save as many as we can,” the president said. “I
am willing to go there to talk… When they say they want to talk about peace, [if
they] lay down their arms, I will go and talk to them.”
When pushed on the extent of martial law and the
possible implications for the nation as a whole, Duterte said, “it is the police and military that say we have reached a
dangerous level… Martial law will end after the police and military tell me
that everything is stabilized.”
For now, Martial law will likely only apply to the
south of the country, and may be expanded to the neighboring Visayas region.
Acknowledging the need to respond, Duterte said if
he didn’t, “the remaining five years of my time, it
will be remembered as an administration that did nothing in the face of
violence… I will not accept that kind of s**t.”
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.rt.com/news/389564-duterte-martial-law-isis/
“There is a special place in hell for you,
idiot. Set one foot in this country and my duty is to make you go straight
there.” – Rodrigo Duterte’s warning to George Soros
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