EU junkie coddlers sons of bitches, Philippines´ Duterte says

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Hospital instead of prison for junkies, the EU demands. Sons of bitches, the Philippines reply.

"During a speech to Chinese businessmen, he highlighted that he did not need the EU to talk about rehabilitation programs which he claimed did not stop drug addicts from committing crimes.

“So we’re getting a relief now from our hardships because a lot of (Chinese) money is coming in. The EU, they communicated to us, and they want a health-based solution for the drugs. These sons of bitches,” he said.

“They want us to build clinics, then instead of arresting, putting them in prisons, just like in other countries, you go there and if you want shabu, they will inject you and give you shabu and you go out,” he said, referring to the methamphetamine used in the Philippines.

“Our people will just go there and consume every chemical until kingdom come, until they are crazy… who will answer for these?”"
Filipino President: The European Union are ‘sons of bitches’

 

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Philippine police try to save lives of drugs war victims...

Philippine top cop says police try to save lives of drugs war victims
Fri Jun 30, 2017 | The Philippines' police chief on Friday stood by anti-narcotics officers and rejected a Reuters investigation that pointed to a pattern of police sending corpses of drug suspects to hospitals to destroy crime scene evidence and hide executions.

President Rodrigo Duterte took office in the Philippines a year ago, launching a bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of Filipinos. In a television interview to mark the anniversary, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Ronald dela Rosa appeared irritated by questions about the Reuters report, published on Thursday, and said police carrying out anti-drugs operations had a duty to save lives, even when encountering violent resistance.

He said police were not medically qualified to determine whether a victim was dead or alive and sent victims to hospital as part of operational procedure. "What do you want, we let the wounded die? You don't want us to rescue his life?" he told news channel ANC. The Reuters investigation analyzed crime data from two of Metro Manila's five police districts and included accounts of doctors, witnesses, law enforcement officials and victims' families.

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald dela Rosa announced the re-launch of police anti-narcotics operations during a news conference inside the PNP headquarters in Quezon city, metro Manila, Philippines​

It showed a pattern of police sending dead bodies to hospitals, preventing thorough crime scene investigations from taking place after the killing of drug suspects. [nL8N1JQ2NQ] Dela Rosa said Reuters, which has produced a series of in-depth reports into the war on drugs that have questioned official accounts, was "looking for faults" in the police. "PNP is damned if you do, damned if you don't. Reuters really is looking for faults in us. We have to stand by our police operational procedure that in case of an encounter, if a person is not yet declared dead by the physician, you need to bring him to the hospital."

He added: "Who are the policemen to say they are dead? They are not medical practitioners. If we did not bring them to the hospitals, the relatives might sue us." A spokeswoman for Reuters said the news agency stood by its reporting. Duterte's bloody campaign has been condemned by human rights groups and alarmed Western countries due to the high death toll and allegations of systematic extrajudicial killings and cover-ups by police. The PNP rejects those allegations.

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Duterte vows end to uprising, ‘jail or hell’ in drug war
July 24,`17 — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Monday to continue his bloody war on illegal drugs despite international and domestic criticism and warned that offenders will end up in “jail or hell.” In his second state of the nation speech, Duterte also insisted he would not hold peace talks with communist rebels because of continuing attacks.

Security issues dominated his most important annual speech, including a disastrous two-month uprising by pro-Islamic State group militants in a southern city, the worst crisis he has faced. Thousands of protesters marched outside Congress demanding he deliver on a range of promises which mirror the diverse burdens of his presidency, from protecting human rights to improving internet speed. A look at the most serious issues confronting Duterte as he enters his second year in power.

ISLAMIC STATE-LINKED SIEGE

Two months after more than 600 pro-Islamic State group militants blasted their way into the southern city of Marawi, the military is still fighting the last gunmen — fewer than 100, about 10 of them foreign. Duterte told reporters after his speech Monday that the government counteroffensive will not stop “until the last terrorist is taken out.” The crisis, however, may not end soon, according to Duterte, because troops have to move carefully to ensure the safety of about 300 hostages he said are being held by the gunmen. “I don’t want these innocent people to be slaughtered,” he said.

Congress overwhelmingly voted on Saturday to grant Duterte’s request to extend martial law in the south to the end of the year to allow Duterte to deal with the Marawi crisis and stamp out other extremist groups across the south, something five presidents before him have failed to do. About half a million people have been displaced by the Marawi fighting. Some have threatened to march back to the still-besieged city to escape the squalor in overcrowded evacuation camps in nearby towns. Rebuilding Marawi will require massive funds and national focus and will be fraught with pitfalls. Amid the despair and gargantuan rebuilding, it’s important “to ensure that extremist teachings do not find fertile ground,” said Sidney Jones, director of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict.

DRUG WAR

Despite criticism and threats of criminal prosecution, Duterte said his drug crackdown, which has left thousands of suspects dead, will go on. “Do not try to scare me with prison or the International Court of Justice,” he said Monday. “I’m willing to go to prison for the rest of my life.” He reiterated his plea that Congress reimpose the death penalty for drug offenders and others. “The fight will not stop until those who deal in (drugs) understand that they have to stop because the alternatives are either jail or hell,” Duterte said, to applause from his national police chief, Ronald del Rosa, and other supporters in the audience.

During the campaign, he promised to rid the country of illegal drugs in three to six months and repeatedly threatened traffickers with death. But he missed his deadline and later declared he would fight the menace until his last day in office. When then-U.S. President Barack Obama, along with European Union and U.N. rights officials, raised alarm over the mounting death toll from the crackdown, Duterte lashed out at them, telling Obama to “go to hell.” Duterte’s fiercest critic at home, Sen. Leila del Lima, was detained in February on drug charges she said were baseless.

More than 5,200 suspects have died so far, including more than 3,000 in reported gunbattles with police and more than 2,000 others in drug-related attacks by motorcycle-riding masked gunmen and other assaults, police said. Human rights groups have reported a higher toll and called for an independent investigation into Duterte’s possible role in the violence. Duterte “has unleashed a human rights calamity on the Philippines in his first year in office,” U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said. In April, a lawyer filed a complaint of crimes against humanity against Duterte and other officials in connection with the drug killings before the International Criminal Court. An impeachment complaint against the president was dismissed in the House of Representatives, which is dominated by Duterte’s allies.

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Duterte threatens to kill his own son for drug trafficking...

Rodrigo Duterte says he would 'kill son' for drug trafficking
Sept. 21, 2017 -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte addressed allegations his son was a gang member who facilitated the smuggling of methamphetamines into the country on Wednesday.

Duterte, whose war against drugs has earned him the nickname "The Punisher," said he would order police to kill his son Paolo should the 42-year-old politician be convicted of drug trafficking, Philippine news service ABS-CBN reported. "I told Pulong, 'My order is to kill you if you are caught...And I will protect the police who will kill you,'" Duterte said at an awards ceremony for "outstanding government workers" at the presidential Malacañang Palace in Manila. "I said before, if I have a child into drugs, you just kill them so no one can say anything," the Philippine leader added, according to local news service Rappler.

Earlier in September, Paolo Duterte appeared before Philippine lawmakers, where he faced charges, made by an opposition party politician, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, that he was a Chinese triad gang member. The younger Duterte was accused of smuggling methamphetamines from China. The allegations came from a customs "fixer," Mark Taguba, who said he arranged for the shipment and was bribed to allow the drugs to enter the Philippines.

Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, son of President Rodrigo Duterte, takes his oath during a Senate inquiry in Pasay City, south Manila, Philippines, on Sept. 7. The Philippine politician faces charges of drug trafficking.​

Trillanes had said Paolo Duterte facilitated the smuggling of $350 million worth of drugs into Manila port. Rodrigo Duterte had initially denounced the allegations against his son and called the evidence against Paolo "trash." During Duterte's term in office, more than 3,800 people have been killed in an anti-drug crackdown that rights groups including Amnesty International has described as "unlawful."

Rodrigo Duterte says he would 'kill son' for drug trafficking

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Thousands in Philippines gather to protest Duterte, martial law
Sept. 21, 2017 -- Thousands engaged in protests throughout the Philippines on Thursday for the 45th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos.

About 5,000 protesters dressed in black shirts gathered on one side of the Mendiola Peace Arch: "" target="_blank"} in Manilla shouting "never again to martial law!" across from hundreds of people in green and orange shirts chanted to show support for current President Rodrigo Duterte, Rappler reported. Duterte signed Proclamation Number 319, declaring Thursday a national day of protest and canceling government work and classes in public schools.

The move was praised by Duterte's supporters as an opportunity to exercise their freedom of expression, while his detractors said the declaration was an opportunity to belittle protests against him and his regime. "That's a big joke. He is the subject of the protest. He cannot declare a day of protest against himself. It is an effort to belittle the protest," Teddy Casino, a former member of the House of Representatives, told Rappler.

Filipino protestors shout slogans during a protest rally at a park in Manila, Philippines, on Thursday, which President Rodrigo Duterte declared a national day of protest on the 45th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by former President Ferdinand Marcos.​

Human rights lawyer Democrito Barcenas, who was detained during martial law, challenged the nation to not repeat past mistakes that led to the country's martial law, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. "Signs of martial law have reemerged," Barcenas said. "Although it's not been formally declared, we can feel it." Duterte has earned the nickname "The Punisher" as a result of his war against drugs that has seen at least 3,800 people killed.

On Wednesday Duterte said he would order police to kill his son Paolo, 42, if he was convinced of trafficking methamphetamines into the country. "In the time of Marcos, people were killed because they were suspected as communists," Barcenas said. "Now, people are killed because they are suspected as drug personalities. All of them are persecuted and killed without any due process. That's why the people must be vigilant and unit against the looming dictatorship."

Thousands in Philippines gather to protest Duterte, martial law

 

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Duterte crackin' down on corruption...

Duterte crushes £4m-worth of luxury cars and motorcycles as part of anti-corruption campaign
1 Aug.`18 - Philippines president watches on as heavy machinery destroys vehicles

Rodrigo Duterte has crushed more than £4m-worth of luxury cars and motorcycles as part of an anti-corruption campaign.
The Philippines government shared footage on Facebook of heavy machinery crushing 76 smuggled cars including Porsches and Lamborghinis and bikes in front of a crowd of spectators, which included the president. They were part of a haul of 800 vehicles illegally imported into the Asian country, according to an official statement.

“These sons of whores are destroying our children. I warn you, don’t go into that, even if you’re a policeman, because I will really kill you. If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful”​

The president’s Facebook page said 68 luxury cars were being “publicly wrecked through backhoe and bulldozer”, alongside eight motorbikes, including models by Harley-Davidson, Triumph and Chopper. In February, Mr Duterte ordered the destruction of 30 luxury vehicles, claiming that selling them at auction would allow criminals to bid under false identities.

It comes after Philippine police vowed to intensify a fight against drugs following Mr Duterte’s promise to keep up his bloody crackdown, a campaign that has alarmed the international community. "Surgical and chilling will be the trademark of the reinvigorated anti-illegal drugs and anti-criminality campaign," police chief Oscar Albayalde said at a news conference. Thousands of suspected drug dealers and users have been killed in the past two years in what police say were shootouts.

Duterte crushes £4m-worth of luxury cars and motorcycles as part of anti-corruption campaign