Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte marks one year in power quoting : Daily Mail Online

Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has marked a year in power with 5,000 people killed and 80,000 arrested in his brutal war on drugs. They say police have summarily executed drug suspects with impunity, terrorising poorer communities and exacerbating the lawlessnesss. Critics say police have summarily executed drug suspects with impunity, terrorising poorer communities and exacerbating the lawlessnesss. Australia has sent two high-tech surveillance planes to help Filipino troops in Marawi, joining the United States in providing military assistance. Rodrigo Duterte took power at the end of June last year vowing to halt substance abuse and lawlessness that he saw as 'symptoms of virulent social disease.'



Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte marks one year in power
CHR's Gascon said, "You have a head of state who says, 'Kill, kill, kill,' a head of state who says, 'I've got your back.' That has a ripple effect." Duterte meanwhile has repeatedly urged police to kill drug suspects and had previously vowed to pardon the officers if they were convicted. The most recent survey, published on April showed 92 percent people saying it was important that drug suspects be captured alive. Laroza revealed that more than half of those polled said they were afraid to venture out at night, a proportion that had barely changed since the drug war began. However, according to police statistics cited by the president's communications team, the number of crimes committed in the first nine months of Duterte's rule has dropped by 30 percent.

'Demonizing' human rights in the first year of Duterte

Ellecer Carlos of In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND) said that with every curse and threat, Duterte effectively "demonized" human rights. "But to say that human rights are only for criminals or that the Commission and human rights defenders are coddlers of criminals is actually not true."Despite the existing situation, CHR and various human rights organizations still continue with their jobs because the people, especially the voiceless on the ground, depend on them. President Rodrigo Duterte paints human rights defenders as an obstacle to the change he promised, according to iDEFEND's Ellecer CarlosPublished 4:00 PM, June 26, 2017MANILA, Philippines – Speak against human rights abuses and expect to be attacked by an online mob. The Davao City mayor has been nothing but consistent in his hardline stance against human rights even before being elected. "These actually demonize human rights defenders."


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