3 Dec 2016 11:35 am
This is the guy that our new President-Elect has invited to the White House.
Excellent.
So Trump endorses the extrajudicial killing of people suspected of using or selling drugs and thinks that is doing it 'the right way.'Rodrigo Duterte Says Donald Trump Endorses His Violent Antidrug Campaign
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said on Saturday that President-elect Donald J. Trump had endorsed his brutal antidrug campaign, telling Mr. Duterte that the Philippines was conducting it “the right way.”
Mr. Duterte, who spoke with Mr. Trump by telephone on Friday, said Mr. Trump was “quite sensitive” to “our worry about drugs.”
“He wishes me well, too, in my campaign, and he said that, well, we are doing it as a sovereign nation, the right way,” Mr. Duterte said.
Mr. Duterte has led a campaign against drug abuse in which he has encouraged the police and others to kill people they suspect of using or selling drugs.
Since he took office in June, more than 2,000 people have been killed by the police in what officers describe as drug raids, and the police say several hundred more have been killed by vigilantes.
The program has been condemned by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and others for what rights organizations have characterized as extrajudicial killings.
In rejecting such criticism from the United States this fall, Mr. Duterte called Mr. Obama a “son of a whore.”
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