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Saturday, February 11, 2017
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President Rodrigo Duterte confronts 228 erring police officers of the National Capital Region Police Office – Philippine National Police at the Malacañang Palace Grounds on Tuesday. Duterte ordered the police officers facing various charges to be detailed in Basilan for two years, giving the errant cops 15 days to decide whether to resign or accept their re-assignment. PCO
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MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday continued to lash out at former Colombian president Cesar Gaviria, who earlier criticized his campaign against illegal drugs.
“Itong ex-president ng Colombia, sabi niya, ‘Duterte is committing the same mistakes.’ We can never [make] the same mistake because I am not [as] stupid as you are,” Duterte told a business forum in Davao City.
“That (mistake) is only possible, Mr. ex-President, if I am stupid as you,” he added.
In an opinion piece in the New York Times, Gaviria warned that Duterte is committing his mistake by taking a tough stance against drugs. He suggested that instead of using force against drug users and traffickers, Duterte should start looking at the drug situation in the country as a social problem.
Gaviria was president of Colombia at the height of the notoriety of slain drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, during which his country was one of the primary suppliers of cocaine to the world.
Gaviria’s heavy-handed approach to the problem, he admitted, has done more harm than good.
But in his speech, Duterte, who had previously called Gaviria an “idiot,” pointed out that Colombia got the help of the United States in its anti-drug war.
“Kasi ang America, nagbuhos ng bilyon because they were flooding America with…All the supplies of cocaine and heroin came from that country. Anong tinulong ng America dito except to recommend for my prosecution in the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court?” he added.
Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs, now suspended, has been blamed for the deaths of over 7,000 people, most of them drug suspects. (GMA News)
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