Duterte: Killing criminals not a crime against humanity

[Pinoy]

Duterte: Killing criminals not a crime against humanity
March 2, 2017

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?”

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***.”

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2...-killing-criminals-not-crime-against-humanity

 

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When you kill criminals that is not a crime against humanity. The criminals have no humanity.

 

[Imad.Khan]

Agreed, Humanity is for humans not monsters, even if those monsters are disguised as humans.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

All he has to do is use drones and everybody will shut up.

 

[livingdead]

All he has to do is use drones and everybody will shut up.

or outsource the job to us Indians.. we are cheap and best.. thank you come again..

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

or outsource the job to us Indians.. we are cheap and best.. thank you come again..

I recommend Africans instead. Who is going to stand up, point the finger at them, and say they have no humanity?

 

[Kyle Sun]

This guy is really tough.
I wish China government do the same to those guys who are trafficking children and women.

 

[Beast]

This guy is really tough.
I wish China.gov.do the same to those guys who trafficing children and women.

CPC is tough in law. It just that they never brag about it like Duterte.

 

[Pinoy]

Duterte May Be Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity, Rights Group Says

New York Times
March 2,2017

MANILA — Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines may have committed crimes against humanity by inciting killings during his bloody antidrug campaign.

Thousands of people have been killed by the police or by vigilantes since Mr. Duterte became president in June, and rights groups say the police may have ordered the extrajudicial killings of drug dealers and users, a charge that officials have denied.

In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch examined 32 deaths from October to January, all involving the Philippine National Police. Police reports asserted that officers had committed the killings in self-defense, but witnesses characterized them as “coldblooded murders of unarmed drug suspects in custody,” the rights group’s study said.

“We think there’s a very strong case to be made in front of the I.C.C. that crimes against humanity have been committed,” Elaine Pearson, the Australia director at Human Rights Watch, said by telephone, referring to the International Criminal Court. She said the first step should be parallel investigations into Mr. Duterte’s antidrug campaign by the United Nations and by the Philippine Justice Department.

In a statement on Thursday, Ernesto Abella, a spokesman for Mr. Duterte, said the report’s allegations were baseless.

“A war on criminality is not a war on humanity,” he said. “On the contrary, it is a war precisely to protect humanity from a modern-day evil. To say otherwise is to undermine society’s legitimate desire to be free from fear and to pander to the interests of the criminals.”

The Philippines is a member of the International Criminal Court. In October, the court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said in a statement that she was “deeply concerned” about reports of extrajudicial killings in the country.

Ms. Bensouda said the killings could fall under the international court’s jurisdiction “if they are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population pursuant to a state policy to commit such an attack.”

But Romel Bagares, a rights lawyer at the Center for International Law in Manila, said in an interview on Thursday that Philippine law appears to grant the president immunity from prosecution while in office.

Even though the International Criminal Court encourages domestic courts to prosecute crimes against humanity, “it may not be helpful at this point to immediately raise the I.C.C.’s jurisdiction as a trump card,” Mr. Bagares added. “The threshold has to be established by documenting the relevant cases, and filing the cases in Philippine courts, if only to show that there is a failure or an unwillingness to prosecute on the part of the state.”

It is unlikely that Mr. Duterte would face domestic prosecution while president. His allies control both houses of Congress, and his justice secretary, Vitaliano Aguirre II, is one of his old fraternity brothers.

Last week, Mr. Aguirre oversaw the arrest of Senator Leila de Lima, the chief critic of Mr. Duterte’s bloody antidrug campaign, on charges that she took bribes from imprisoned drug traffickers.

Ms. de Lima chaired a Senate panel last year that heard testimony from a professed hit man who said he belonged to a death squad that Mr. Duterte had overseen while serving as mayor of Davao City. Ms. de Lima has denied the charges against her, describing them as political persecution.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/...erte-human-rights-watch-philippines.html?_r=0


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