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Thursday, October 22, 2020

'If it’s drugs, you shoot and kill,' says the leader of one nation of his fight against drugs

 Chivis Martinez Borderland Bat TY Gus  Guardian

He calls it his war on drugs, others call it social cleansing as his death squads kill thousands of "suspects" on sight....

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has said he has no problem with being held responsible for the thousands of killings under his government’s war on drugs, adding that he was ready to face charges that could land him in jail, though not charges of crimes against humanity.

The president’s televised remarks on Monday night were among his clearest acknowledgment of the prospects that he could face a deluge of criminal charges for the bloody campaign he launched after taking office in mid-2016.

The killing of nearly 6,000 drug suspects have been reported by police but rights watchdogs suspect the death toll is far higher.

“If there’s killing there, I’m saying I’m the one ... you can hold me responsible for anything, any death that has occurred in the execution of the drug war,” Duterte said.

“If you get killed it’s because I’m enraged by drugs,” the president said. “If that’s what I’m saying, bring me to court to be imprisoned. Fine, I have no problem. If I serve my country by going to jail, gladly.”

At least two complaints for crimes against humanity and mass murder in connection with Duterte’s campaign are being examined by an international criminal court (ICC) prosecutor, who will determine whether there is enough evidence to open a full investigation.

Duterte responded to the complaints by withdrawing the Philippines from the court two years ago in a move that human rights groups said was a major setback in the country’s battle against impunity. The ICC prosecutor has said the examination into the drug killings would continue despite the Philippine withdrawal.

Duterte framed his remarks by portraying the drug menace as a national security and public threat like the decades-long communist insurgency that the government is obligated to quell.

“If this is allowed to go on and on and if no decisive action is taken against them, it will endanger the security of the state,” said Duterte, a former government prosecutor.

“When you save your country from the perdition of the people like the NPAs and drugs, you are doing a sacred duty,” he said, referring to communist New People’s Army insurgents.

There are 1.6 million drug addicts in the Philippines, Duterte said, citing statistics from an anti-narcotics agency. The figure is much smaller than the 4 million addicts that he cited the police as reporting early in his presidency to justify his crackdown.

Police have reported at least 5,856 drug suspects have been killed in raids and more than 256,000 others arrested since the start of the crackdown. Human rights groups have accused authorities of considerably under reporting the deaths.


'If it’s drugs, you shoot and kill,' Duterte orders Philippine custom chief.

Duterte said drug killings that did not happen during police operations should not be blamed on him, adding those deaths may have been set off by gang rivalries or settling of scores.

There have been widespread suspicions of extrajudicial killings in the crackdown, allegations that Duterte and the police deny.

In 2018, a court convicted three police officers of murdering a 17-year-old student after witnesses and a security video disproved their claim that the suspect was shot after violently resisting, a common reason cited by police officers after drug suspects are killed.

48 comments:

  1. Dont do drugs you wont get shot.

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    1. a very limited view.
      Do not have envious neighbors who kill you cause they want your house, property...whatever. Drugs are a good excuse.
      You are free to shoot if they shoot first, otherwise not.

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    2. Are you supposed to be an intelligent human being?

      Our brothers,sisters,mothers,fathers all may end up victims of this fuckin midget.
      How can any right thinking person think this is any kind of an option?Complete and utter madness,where does it end,where does this fuckin dog draw a line?
      On an individuals say so 1000s of people may be killed because they take drugs?We are in the year 2020 and shit like this is goin on.No wonder we are fucked

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    3. 10:34 rodrigo duterte "the Philipino Butcher" is himself a self confessed drug addict.
      --His death squads have evolved into drug traffickers killing rivals after human rights organizations started accusing him and his murdering policuicos
      -- fighting communism cost about 50 000US servicemen their lives in Vietnam, and about 5 million vietnamese theirs, most of them innocent "accomplices of the vietcong" killed after getting raped, many elderly and children
      --while on the US communist drug addicts and hippies protested and protested the war we were told by different american leaders until the end "we was winning".
      --latin american dictators like pinochet, stroessner, videla rios montt, uribe velez, and graduate from Western Hemisphere Institute for Cooperation admiral emilio eduardo massera founding member of the Montoneros he extorted and exploited and used to steal from many of his victims to support his beloved vedette prostitutes and buy them gifts and expensive apartments, shit, he used to take some of his victims out for dinner after toeturing them in his School of Marine Mechanics ESMAR, LIKE HIM, others were graduated of "The School of the Americas" or trained by delegate officers graduated there, latinamericans and americans.
      --duterte has had accompkices and enablers, they all need to hang, and then beheaded like albaro uribe veles also desrves,
      --in mexico it has been discovered that murdering bitch narco-governor francisco javier cabeza de cagadas de vacas of Tamaulipas is the nephew of imprisoned on the US narco-general Cienpedos and both have been extorting friend and foe all over Mexico, even El Botas Blancas died executed by the Marinas because genarco garcia luna and his police and the Army could not get the job done against their partner Arturo Beltran Leyva, as the US demanded
      --arms merchant and weapons supplier to the Mexican Secretary of Defense and his favorite cartels Jaime Camil Garza has been named "Padrino of "El Padrino" Cienfuegos, no wonder, like Adnan Kashoggi used his big long boat, he used to take Cienpedos on sea travels aboard his "yatch" in Acapulco where his BLO was brought in to kick the zetas out of there.
      --Drugs is their business and their excuse like "communism".

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    4. Just because someone does drugs doesn’t mean they deserve to die. Jesus man. Plus this Duterte guy is a fentanyl addict himself so it’s all a bunch of bull shit.

      Phelpso

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  2. Open season on killing drug dealers.

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  3. The world really does need more men like him. He's obviously pro war. Not like some pussies who managed to dodge the draft or outright avoid serving.

    - Sol Prendido

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    1. Stupid.

      People fall into drug-related problems in their youth every day. Writing them off as undeserving of life for what may end up being a phase in their lives, is ridiculous.

      Personally, I was fortunate to have two sober parents who kept me in check, but a lof of people around me weren't as lucky. Years later, most of them have grown up to be productive, law-abiding citizens.

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    2. Being pro-war is easy when the fight isn't in your backyard and you aren't the one fighting.

      War should be the very last resort.

      As much as I hate how divisive and self-centered he is, Trump actually seemed to prevent war well, which is why I'm considering voting for him. The military industrial complex appears to be too real and he seems to have held his ground when they were salivating for war in countries like Venezuela.

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    3. If its war u want then trump is it @11:56. However, considering Venezuela's military vs American military equipment. It's a walk in the park.
      Trump has yet to denounce Russian continuous involvement. Seems Vladimir Putin has got something on chump.

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    4. Imagine calling someone a pussy for seeing no value in suiting up and shipping off to a far away land to suppress a small country with death and destruction whose population, while never threatening your own nation, has been fighting decades in their own land to rid themselves of the very oppressors you are fighting for.

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    5. Do you feel the same for drug user vets who returned all sorts of fckd up from their wars?

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    6. Probably just like you...

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    7. Real tough talking about war when you're not the one getting your hands dirty, real easy to talk when the rich stay safe meanwhile country man is against country man. What do you win? How many people will take it personally on either side? War doesnt solve anything. War destroys everyone. If you dont think so, then set your crusade and learn the hard way. Every orphan of war remembers what history often hides.

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    8. Not gonna risk my life or get drafted for a country/gov/president that taxes me more than corporations, doesn’t hold police officers accountable for killing/profiling/harassing, Pays sh*t salaries, puts people in prisons (which is a business in the U.S.), starts wars for personal gain (, 9/11 etc.) not to mention what happened to Vanessa, I can’t get behind that. I’m good off having a jerk off yell at me like I’m a child, si eres de huevos mejor úsalos para sacar a tu familia adelante no a un país que ni siquiera te quiere cabron.

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    9. @8:45 no necesito que me quieran cabron. Mientras me sigan pagando es todo lo que importa. Y el día que ya no quieran pagar pos no modo. Le busco por otro lado. Mientras tanto hay vamos dando le duró a la vida.
      - Sol Prendido

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    10. @11:55 war really should be the last resort. I couldn't agree more on that statement of yours. Unfortunately not all people seem to understand staying away from drugs when they're being told for their own good. Many are being constantly reminded daily. Buy those messages tend to fall on deaf ears for some odd reason. And that's where conflict comes into play.
      - Sol Prendido

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  4. Duterte is a criminal. The police have killed over 7,000 people, mostly drug addicts. The Marcos's used money stolen from the Filipino people to help get him elected. The piece of shit needs to rot in a dungeon for the rest of his life.

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    1. "Duterte is a criminal. The police have killed over 7,000 people, mostly drug addicts"

      Nearly every person on the planet has been touched by drugs,our brothers,sisters etc,its absolutely insane that this is being allowed in 2020.This little prick Duterte is all powerful with the might of the organs of state behind him,making pronouncements on anything he doesnt like.And a nation is held to ransom

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    2. It's insanity. There is no way this guy is going to get away with this. He will eventually have to pay for his crimes. I hope they round up the police officers responsible for all the extrajudicial killings, and lock them up and throw away the room.

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  5. Had a professor that’s from the Philippines and she told us that when the Duarte started the drug on war the majority of people actually supported him. He began to lose approval from citizens once he started going after random people not just drug dealers.

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    1. He hasn't lost much support surprisingly. 90% of people still support this

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  6. No problem with that. Exterminate with extreme prejudice. Good idea now if Mexico will follow......

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    1. "No problem with that. Exterminate with extreme prejudice"

      Exterminate you for being a dumbass,half assed hard case on a computer

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  7. I would say shoot the dealers, if it were only that simple.

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  8. Duterte will never hand over power once his term is up, because he knows he will be prosecuted later. This guy is a dictator for life in the making because he knows that by now he has no other option to save his ass.

    A case one step worse than Trump for sure!

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    1. "A case one step worse than Trump for sure!"

      Ohh dude get a fuckin grip,use your own mind dont be a blindless follower all your life,fuckin ridiculous people

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  9. The funny thing is that Duterte is a heavy user (addict) of fentanyl, supposedly for back pain.

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  10. Like it or not.....
    Violent crime is down 67% in the Philippines

    The individual has a 90% approval rating with Filipinos.

    Rage all you want but it is fruitless to rage at reality.

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    1. "Like it or not.Violent crime is down 67% in the Philippines"


      Like it or not your brother may end up hands tied shot in the head and dumped in a street for havin a toke you bellend.Followers the lot of you,the herd need to be kept in check with pronouncements and public murder

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  11. Careful what you wish for Mr.President!

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  12. Careful what you wish for Mr.President!

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  13. So 11:50, "your friend" is a professor stuck in her Ivory Tower casting theories about the common people using her algorithms, and then you report it all as valid. And we are supposed to believe what you report second hand, okay, perhaps you are just reporting what she says. In actuality if you visit the people in the small barangays (barrios) they will tell you that the president is very popular with them, that they could not live with the drug problem that was so out of hand, the burglaries, the muggings, the killings from gang to gang, the nightmare of everyday witnessing drug users on the streets; there has been NO reduction in his support, but your friend reports the contrary for a certain reason, I wonder why. You and your professor think that the alternative of WHAT?? is the answer that the Philippines has not tried? Listen to what the president says, drug use was killing the Philippines. So you liberal minded bleeding hearts complain about the poor drug users who could give a flying leap about anyone else that they are the victims, think again. Please do think again and for yourself after you get some real facts from real Filipinos on the street going to work, protecting their children on the way to school, going to church; and so it goes.

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    1. Well thought out 722 I think they should declare war on drugs kill millions of people, arrest all of the rest put them in jail for life and the drug problem will be solved just like we solved it in the United States…But of course you’re right we lost it in the US despite spending trillions of dollars because we just didn’t shoot and kill everybody involved. Great idea

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    2. 2:21 uses exaggeration, contrived emotionalism, and red herrings (a common ploy in debate, in this case dangling nonsense ideas) in his or her demagoguery.

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  14. Kill them all. God will sort out the believers.

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    1. Kill them all. God will sort out the believers.

      Kill them all,then he talks about GOD?
      The fuckin idiots on here flappin their gums

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    2. The same bitches who whine about trump are probably the same ones sayin kill drug dealers

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    3. Duarte is a drug addict himself.

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  15. I hate drugs and drug dealers they have hurt so much

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  16. Trump deported me,trump did this trump did that.
    Scary how easily led people are

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  17. We need that in the United States! Mexico needs that hahaha

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  18. First of all Dutertes son got caught with 300million dollars worth of shabu. Philippine does have a meth problem plus so much many more problems corruption is # 1 no jobs shitty wages #2 shabu prostitution alcoholism #3 the Agenda is to keep the whole philippines dumb down suppress its history and populations (damn spaniards) as much as possible alot of criminal orgs and enterprise in phillipines(Old World).

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    1. 8:10, Duterte's son was not caught with any drugs! You are lying about everything in your comment! Why? Both the Senate and a special ombudsman/prosecutor ruled clearing him of any wrongdoing. Why are you lying? You obviously know nothing, nothing at all about the Philippines; I doubt very much that you had ever been there. Who are you to want to lie about the Philippines with such hostility?

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  19. 8:10

    thank you thoughtful and well informed commenter...

    before coming across ur post as i was scrolling the comments section it almost began to feel as tho intelligent discussion facillitated with ones rectum was somehow the norm around here.


    to all those clamoring for state sponsored extra judicial killings as an enlightened road map for dealing with the behaviors and hobbys that happen to not be ur own, remember nourishment goes into the mouth and out ur back end not the other way around.


    instead of listing out the myriad of real world examples, hypocracys being justified that would make even greek pillowsoftuhhfur hypocitus blush wand yno shid shislock/sherlock ([-] = do,wo,ca,ku) [-]n't say reasons what why where on whom the war on drugs is... is thee 20th century blight[not gonna be 21st as well right? come on intelligent human beings] social debit scar unoffcially titled "Insidiously Canned man Forfeiture THEFT LOTTO VI.VI.VI - the live out strung out live in stuck inaction remake..., one whos sole keeper and perpetuator of, is thee rational del torcidos only to the willfully ignorant, painfully misinformed, or keyboard psychopathic warrior of the creed "this here for ur own gooder" a present time self annointed holier than thou judge jury executishcartoon chariacture. if this way of thinking had a brand it would be easily recognized as "chaff & gaff, repeat & follow, nudge mob/door knob square pants, cereal box killn tricks by proxy
    is for the kids...these may be streching it a bit but many can attest thesd to be at least 110% accurate descriptive observations.

    lets breakdown the phrase "war on drugs", this statement isnt your own it was marketed and sold to you by people who had something big to gain by you thinking and consenting in a particular way at a particular idea a management strategy but first and fore most convincing you it was 1. something that required to be managed 2. that they were the ones to do it see...


    now in that context, regardless if you yourself enjoy taking drugs, drinking alcohol smoking cigarettes or any other presently deemed taxable or questionably legal hobby or activity of enjoyment, what sounds more dangerous in this phrase...war on drugs...the war or the drugs part?... im pretty sure drugs were inattimate objects yesturday...yep still a re today...anyones guess tomorrow i suppose...the war on the other hand pretty different picture im seeing what about you? what do you see?


    everything is learned folks...especially so when it comes to conceived ways of beheaving, i argue this applies equally so to the way humans take and relate to drugs. this also ties into how people relate and 'see' to people that happen to be outside their normal social circles and habituals and rituals ect..inclusively deemed "the other" by our english speaking part of the world...this is done so with love im certain of it....

    what im not certain of is how an inelligent persons in thw 21st century with more information available in a few minutes at ones fingertips than most people of times past ever could hope to see in a lifetime...now how in the world are these intelligent modern peoples able to be convinced and consent by decree or inaction that 1. a war on an inatimate object is an idea worth starting let alone continuing indefinitely 2. that a war is the lesser of two evils when compared to drugs... 3. that the truck all pukes selling you on the idea are the people best for the job of solving this problem let alone any problem you might think you have or actually have.


    ill say it again everything is learned...doesn't like to many of us seem to have payed much attention and or had pretty lousy teachers/experiences to learn me something.


    convince me otherwise, id love to be wrong i really flippin would....


    cheers.

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  20. Duatartes police are protecting duatartes drug dealers..this is a war on independent drug dealers and junky troublemakers.

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  21. 2:20 what you are doing is broadcasting as much fake news as you can in the hopes that something will stick with the public, but know that we are all on to what you are doing, the reason however is why? You are the one commenter here who is responsible for the stir and swish. Pure nonsense coming from your radical-minded imagination. Best of luck to you.

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