Duterte threatens to kill rights activists if drug problem worsens :: Produces narco-list with names of 5000 officials

Rights activists threatened with death, if war on drugs fails.

Umrao Singh umraoz.wordpress.com

President Rodrigo Duterte is not a man to shy away from speaking his mind; and, most of his opinions and declarations are in anger when he feels strongly enough to react to a certain situation; this time around, he has spoken out against the activists of human rights and has threatened to kill them if the war on drugs fails and there is an escalation in the operations of the drug-peddling gangs.

It is not yet six months that he took over as President of the Philippines but in this short period a lot of water has flown under the Filipino bridge. There is no doubt that he has made more enemies than friends due to his offensive language and the actions of vigilantes who had become active even before the swearing-in to the residency was over on 30th June 2016.

There is also no doubt that all these enemies, that includes the local opposition, the terrorist bandits and anti-nationals, the United Nations, the European Union and many more whose relatives and friends were the targets of the vigilantes, most of them self-appointed, are trying their best to ensure that his campaign to rid the scourge of drugs from his motherland flops.
The movements at the United Nations, that prompted Duterte to invite them to send observers to see for themselves the state of the nation, were also the handiwork of the human rights activists most of whom are funded and motivated by selfish interests who are more bothered with ensuring failure of the war on drugs than seeing or supporting the efforts of their government.
The punisher has been controlling his urge to blast out at his detractors or those who he felt strongly about; but, how long can you keep a motivated, overenthusiastic patriot quite?
He has now come out with an outburst against the human rights activists who are the main reason why his war on drugs might fail; what remains to be seen is whether the self-appointed vigilantes will pick up the cudgels on his behalf and start a round of assassinations that may be directed against these activists.
The President had declared that he will adopt a take-no-prisoners strategy to make his war against illegal trucks that has been instrumental in direct and indirect killings of more than 5000 people who were actually engaged in the trade of illegal drugs or were suspected or known by the vigilantes to be involved with drug-peddling; this has strengthened the arguments of the rights activists who take a jaundiced view of his tactics.

Good of the nation is more important

But, these human rights activists need also to understand that the situation of the drug-running is so bad in the country that ordinary measures will have no impact on rectifying the networks of Chinese and indigenous and local drug pushers to mend their ways or simply move away from this trade.

The Presidential speech, delivered from the Presidential Palace Malacanang on Monday evening, warned the nation that, if the war on the trade of narcotics failed, he would only hold these human rights activists who were trying to shield the drug-runners and drug lords.

These were the people who were accusing him of ordering the summary executions, he said. These watchdogs of human morals accused him of having ordered the killings though no one had been able to present any fact, he said.

This speech was a reply to those activists who were against the deaths that were attributed to him personally; so, he asked the audience at the opening of a coal-fired power plant where he had gone to switch on the project, do we just stop our activities and allow these drug runners to have a free hand?

Even if we allow these drug-peddlers to carry on their nefarious activities, what will happen, he asked. They will flourish and their trade will kill many more of our people of this generation and those to follow.

End of part 1

Written for: Lars-Magnus Carlsson
www.thephilippinepride.com Wednesday, 30 November 2016

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