Duterte: ‘Insane’ leaders should be ‘disposed of’ immediately

FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte interacts with the Filipinos based in Israel as he met with them at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem on September 2, 2018. (REY BANIQUET/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)

Expressing his disdain, President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, September 3, said ‘insane’ leaders should be ‘disposed of’ immediately.

Duterte made this remark during his visit at the Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, adding that this “horrific and benighted period of human history” should never happen again.

“We have learned so much along the years during the two wars. There is always a lesson to be learned and that despots and leaders who show insanity should be — well they should be disposed of at the first instance,” Duterte said.

“I would like to say that we are one in saying that it will not happen again and my country will be the first to voice such I said a massacre of a race just because of hate,” he added.

Some six million Jews were systematically murdered during World War II by German Nazis and its collaborators under the command of the late dictator, Adolf Hitler.

“I realized that war is insanity. And what happened here, in Europe especially under the Nazi,” the President said.

“I could not imagine of a country obey an insane leader. And I could not ever fathom the spectacle of a human being going into a killing spree, murdering old men, women, men, children, mother,” he continued.

In 2016, Duterte earned the ire of the international community after he drew parallels between his controversial war against illegal drugs and Hitler’s extermination of millions of Jews, stressing that he would be “happy to slaughter” some three million drug addicts in the Philippines.

Duterte, later on, apologized for this controversial remark, clarifying that he never intended to ‘derogate’ the memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazi regime.

The President, joined by his daughter Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio and several of his Cabinet members, also went to the Memorial Hall Venue and led the ceremonial wreath laying at the Hall of Remembrance, the first Holocaust commemoration site at Yad Vashem.