President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations, as he launched another profanity-laced tirade against the organisation for criticising his bloody war on crime.
More than 1,500 people have been killed since Mr Duterte took office and immediately began his law-and-order crackdown, according to police statistics, triggering fierce criticism from the UN and rights groups.
Mr Duterte, a lawyer famous for an acid tongue who has repeatedly told the UN not to interfere, today stepped up his rhetoric.
"Maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you are that disrespectful, son of a whore, then I will just leave you," Mr Duterte said in a press conference in his home city of Davao.
"I would invite everybody. I would invite maybe China, the African (nations)," he said.
The UN's special rapporteur on summary executions, Agnes Callamard, last week said Mr Duterte's promise of immunity and bounties to security forces who killed drug suspects violated international law.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June also strongly criticised Mr Duterte, who during the election campaign promised to kill 100,000 people and dump so many bodies in Manila Bay that the fish would grow fat from feeding on them.
"I unequivocally condemn his apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killings, which is illegal and a breach of fundamental rights and freedoms," Mr Ban said.
Mr Duterte frequently peppers his public comments with swear words – he has also called Pope Francis and the US ambassador to Manila sons of whores – and days after his election win used typical language to criticise the UN...
[AFP/rte.ie]
21/8/16
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More than 1,500 people have been killed since Mr Duterte took office and immediately began his law-and-order crackdown, according to police statistics, triggering fierce criticism from the UN and rights groups.
Mr Duterte, a lawyer famous for an acid tongue who has repeatedly told the UN not to interfere, today stepped up his rhetoric.
"Maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you are that disrespectful, son of a whore, then I will just leave you," Mr Duterte said in a press conference in his home city of Davao.
- The president said he may even look to set up another international organisation.
"I would invite everybody. I would invite maybe China, the African (nations)," he said.
The UN's special rapporteur on summary executions, Agnes Callamard, last week said Mr Duterte's promise of immunity and bounties to security forces who killed drug suspects violated international law.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June also strongly criticised Mr Duterte, who during the election campaign promised to kill 100,000 people and dump so many bodies in Manila Bay that the fish would grow fat from feeding on them.
"I unequivocally condemn his apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killings, which is illegal and a breach of fundamental rights and freedoms," Mr Ban said.
Mr Duterte frequently peppers his public comments with swear words – he has also called Pope Francis and the US ambassador to Manila sons of whores – and days after his election win used typical language to criticise the UN...
[AFP/rte.ie]
21/8/16
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