Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte branded human rights criticisms levied at his administration by leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “personal insult” on Tuesday, dismissing Trudeau’s concern as “bullshit” and refuting the prime minister’s claim that Duterte was “receptive” to his comments.
The communist government of China announced on Wednesday that it had signed 14 trade deals with the Philippines and offered over $22 million in aid to repair the city of Marawi, site of a failed attempt to establish an Islamic State “caliphate.”
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sanctioned a bloody drug war that features extrajudicial killing. He called Barack Obama a “son of a whore.” This week, he boasted that he murdered a man with his own hands.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte delivered an outrageous, hour-long speech to Philippine citizens in Vietnam Thursday in which he insulted President Obama, the EU, and “white people,” claimed to have threatened to “slap” a United Nations expert, and asserted that he had killed someone as a teenager.
Speaking at a news conference in Qatar, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte compared himself to U.S. President Donald Trump as a leader criticized for bold speech, but he praised Trump as “a realist and a pragmatic thinker.”
A national survey in the Philippines found that nearly 80 percent of citizens fear being killed as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on drug criminals, but nearly the same amount, 85 percent, approve of the drug war nonetheless.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte twice claimed to have personally killed drug suspects as mayor of Davao City this week, claiming at two different events that he enjoyed getting on his motorcycle and “looking for a confrontation.”
