8/21/16, "Philippines' Duterte threatens to quit U.N. after drugs war censure," Reuters
"Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday
after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war
on drugs, saying he might leave the organization and invite China and
others to form a new one.
Two
U.N. human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop the
extra-judicial executions and killings that have escalated since Duterte
won the presidency on a promise to wipe out drugs.
About 900 suspected drug traffickers have been killed since he came to power after winning the election on May 9.
Duterte
on Friday denied that the government was responsible and in a
middle-of-the-night news conference in his home town, Davao, said the
deaths were not the work of the police and invited U.N. experts to
investigate themselves.
The news conference was broadcast by local media and the full version was posted on Facebook by GMA news.
"I
will prove to the world that you are a very stupid expert," he said,
urging them to count not just the number of drug-related deaths but also
the innocent lives lost to drugs.
He
then launched an attack on the United Nations and its members -
including by inference Manila's traditionally close ally, Washington -
saying, it could not fulfill its own mandate but was "worrying about the
bones of criminals piling up".
"I
do not want to insult you. But maybe we'll just have to decide to
separate from the United Nations," he said. "Why do you have to listen
to this stupid?"
Criticizing the
U.N. for not doing enough to address hunger and terrorism and for not
being able to do anything about Syria and Iraq and allowing big powers
to bomb villages and kill innocent civilians, he said he would invite
China and African nations to form another global organization.
"You
now, United Nations, if you can say one bad thing about me, I can give
you 10 (about you). I tell you, you are an inutile. Because if you are
really true to your mandate, you could have stopped all these wars and
killing."
Asked about the possible consequences of his comments, he said: "What is...repercussions? I don't give a shit to them."
He said the United Nations should have acted according to protocol by sending someone such as a rapporteur to talk to him.
"You do not just go out and give a shitting statement against a country," he said."
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