Duterte, Philippine President, Boasts He Killed Someone as a Teenager
10, 2017
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said on Friday
that he had stabbed someone to death when he was a teenager, the latest claim from a leader who has boasted of personally killing people while defending a violent crackdown on drugs.
The Philippine leader has been widely criticized for an extrajudicial crackdown on drug dealers and users
that has left an estimated 4,000 people dead since May 2016, according to local news outlets.
Vietnam said that At the age of 16, I already killed someone.
Human rights groups have condemned Mr. Duterte, saying the crackdown has allowed police officers
and vigilantes to ignore due process and to take justice into their own hands.
Mr. Duterte is set to meet with President Trump on Sunday in Manila, part of the American president’s 12-day tour to several Asian nations.
Duterte said that When I was a teenager, I had been in and out of jail, rumble here and there,
