President Rodrigo Duterte. AP File Photo
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday hit back at Amnesty International (AI) for accusing his administration of ordering police and paying others to kill drug offenders in his brutal war on illegal drugs.
“Sabi binibigyan raw ng singko mil kada… P***** i**. Bakit man ako magbigay sa inyo para magpatay? Trabaho niyo ‘yan (The report claimed that for every kill, there is a reward of P5000. S** of a b****. Why would I give you money for killing? That’s your job),” Duterte said in a speech in North Cotabato.
In a report on Wednesday, AI said the drug-related killings in the country “may amount to crimes against humanity.”
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Malacañang has insisted there were no state-sponsored killings in the country amid the accusation of international human rights watchdog.
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Latest data from the Philippine National Police showed that 2, 555 were killed in police operations while 4,000 deaths were under investigation. RAM