Wednesday, 13. July 2016
Topic: DRUGS - on July 13, 2016 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte urges people to kill drug addicts
Authoritarian firebrand Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the Philippines’ president on Thursday, extending an olive branch to the country’s elites in his official speech, only to later vow to wipe out drug traffickers and urge the population to kill addicts. Duterte, 71, won last month’s election in a landslide after a campaign dominated by threats to kill tens of thousands of criminals in a relentless war on crime, and tirades against the nation’s elite that cast him as an incendiary, anti-establishment hero.
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