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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte holds an Israeli-made Galil rifle at Camp Crame in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out yesterday at another UN human rights expert for making critical remarks about his role in the expulsion of the country’s chief justice, telling him “to go to hell.”
Mr Duterte dismissed the remarks of Diego Garcia-Sayan and told him not to meddle in domestic problems.
“Tell him not to interfere with the affairs of my country. He can go to hell,” Duterte said in a late-night televised news conference. “He is not a special person and I do not recognise his rapporteur title.”
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
