6 minutes agoDuterte's 50-minute speech about the ruthless fight against drug traffickers
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)On his country's anniversary, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has voiced brutal war on drug dealers. Thousands of drug users have been killed since the autocratic law to prevent narcotics has been enacted. The president of the Philippines appeared in a campaign against him, expressing the violent fight against [the] traffickers.
The president of the Philippines appeared in a campaign against him, expressing the violent fight against drug traffickers.
Allow me to tell you plainly: The fight against illegal drugs is much tougher than in the past”, Duterte said, which is entering his third year of six-year term. “The fight against illegal drugs will not be skipped. Instead, it will be as frightening and ruthless as it was in the day it began”.
Since the beginning of his war, police have killed more than 4, 500 people, although human rights groups say the actual number could be three to five times larger, “reported. DW” Transmission Periscope.
Meanwhile, International Criminal Court prosecutors have sharply criticised his controversial policies.
But Duterte has not been late and has responded to the International Court. “Your concern is human rights, mine is people's life”. Your youth's “Lives are wasted in destruction, and all of this is due to the use of sodium substances such as metamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis and heroin”. /Periscopi/
