Skip to content
Menu
  • News
  • Rugby
  • Old Skool shoes
  • limerick gaa jerseys
  • f1 t shirt
oumea.com

Duterte snubs UN human rights panel, says he’ll ‘only face a trial in a Philippine court’

Posted on July 18, 2019
Follow RT on

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has defiantly refused to cooperate with a UN human rights tribunal, saying that if he is ever to be put on trial over his ‘War on Drugs’, it would have to be in the Philippines.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution last Thursday to investigate alleged human rights abuses by Duterte’s government as part of Manila’s ‘War on Drugs.’ The measure was introduced to the 48-member international body by Iceland, prompting Duterte to consider severing ties with the Nordic nation.

In an interview with Philippines pastor Apollo Quiboloy on Wednesday, Duterte said that he would never recognize the UN organization’s authority. 

Click Here: fjallraven kanken backpack

“I will only face, be tried or face a trial in a Philippine court, presided by a Filipino judge, [and] prosecuted by a Filipino,” he said. Duterte described the human rights institution as “stupid” for expecting him to answer to a Westerner. 

“I will not answer a Caucasian…You must be stupid. Who are you? I am a Filipino. We have our courts here,” he said.

The UNHRC’s move has not come out of the blue. As part of his war on drugs, Duterte’s state security forces have engaged in thousands of extrajudicial killings and other abuses, according to Western human rights organizations.

“President Duterte’s policies –which include directly encouraging unlawful killing– have seen thousands of people murdered with total impunity amid growing lawlessness, with extrajudicial executions in homes and on the country’s streets still happening on a daily-basis,” said Rachel Chhoa Howard, Amnesty International’s Philippines researcher.

Amnesty has even called for Duterte to be investigated for crimes against humanity. Walden Bello, a former member of the Philippine’s House of Representatives and now an academic in the US, has described Duterte as a fascist.

“Probably no fascist personality since Hitler has used the mandate of a plurality at the polls to reshape the political arena more swiftly and decisively than Duterte in 2016,” Bello wrote in The Nation magazine in 2017.

A poll released earlier this month showed record popularity for the president, however, with 80 percent of Filipinos and Filipinas approving of his performance –breaking the record approval he set in June 2017 and repeated in March this year– with only 12 percent dissatisfied.

Like this story?

Recent Posts

  • Rain Gauge: Measuring Precipitation for Weather and Climate Studies
  • Rain Gauge: A Comprehensive Overview of Its Design and Functionality
  • **How Is Dew Point Calculated**
  • How is Dew Point Calculated?
  • How is Dew Point Calculated?

Recent Comments

    Archives

    • April 2025
    • March 2025
    • February 2025
    • January 2025
    • December 2024
    • November 2024
    • February 2023
    • January 2023
    • December 2022
    • November 2022
    • October 2022
    • September 2022
    • August 2022
    • July 2022
    • June 2022
    • May 2022
    • April 2022
    • March 2022
    • February 2022
    • January 2022
    • December 2021
    • October 2021
    • September 2021
    • August 2021
    • July 2021
    • June 2021
    • May 2021
    • April 2021
    • March 2021
    • February 2021
    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • February 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • November 2019
    • October 2019
    • September 2019
    • August 2019
    • July 2019
    • June 2019
    • May 2019
    • April 2019
    • March 2019

    Categories

    • News
    • Rugby

    Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org
    ©2025 oumea.com | WordPress Theme by Superbthemes.com