{"id":113293,"date":"2017-08-21T23:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113293"},"modified":"2017-08-21T23:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T03:14:52","slug":"rody-challenges-protesters-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/21\/rody-challenges-protesters-go-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Rody challenges protesters: Go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cKung sino \u2018yung may gusto ng himagsikan, sige… <\/em>(Whoever wants an uprising, go ahead\u2026) If you want that, go ahead. You have my blessing, no one will stop you in the streets,\u201d President Rodrigo Roa Duterte challenged the rallyists behind \u201cHimagsikan para kay Kian\u201d yesterday.<\/p>\n

He praised the movement as he called the country\u2019s system and its government \u2018rotten.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Rody\u2019s challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President told the media that as a worker of the government, while it is his job to defend the government, he is not stopping anyone from protesting. \u201cI will be glad if you do it. You want war against government? Go ahead. I am encouraging you to take to the streets, everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I find out later that I am the only one defending the government, then I will be happy to go down. Walang problema \u2018yan. Wala akong<\/em> (There is no problem. I have no) illusions d\u2019yan<\/em> about staying for five years,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Duterte even said that he is \u2018waiting\u2019 for this. \u201cSo there will be change of president and everything. And perhaps the new generation will come up with a government that is really working,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He reiterated that whoever lost their hope in him and the police should join the rally.<\/p>\n

Initially before bringing up the protesters, Duterte was asked if he feared losing the police\u2019s support \u2013 in which he answered, \u201cI do not care if you lose your trust in me\u201d as his position in the government is not permanent and may range from one to two years only.<\/p>\n

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Himagsikan para kay\u00a0Kian<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHustisya, hustisya, sa lahat ng biktima.<\/em> Digong Duterte, panagutin, panagutin<\/em>. (Justice for the victims. Digong Duterte, be responsible),\u201d this was the shout of the protesters yesterday.<\/p>\n

What trended on August 18 on social media websites as #JusticeforKian, became an all-out rally, dubbed as \u201cHimagsikan para kay\u00a0Kian\u201d at the People Power Monument on EDSA.<\/p>\n

In a CCTV footage, 17-year-old Kian delos Santos, a grade 11 student who dreamt of becoming a policeman someday was gunned by the police last week during a drug raid. The police said that delos Santos was a drug-runner and fired the shots first, however eye witnesses and the footage showed that he was forced to hold a gun, before he was shot at the back of his head. This sparked a cry for justice from the netizens.<\/p>\n

In an article by\u00a0Rappler, Akbayan Youth representative Shamah Bungasin said yesterday that most extrajudicial killing cases were in places that have no CCTV.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi natin masasabing suwerte si<\/em> Kian, pero buti na lang talaga merong<\/em> CCTV na nakakuha para makita ng lahat ng tao na ang<\/em> war on drugs na ito ay kurap, ang<\/em> war on drugs na \u2018to ay<\/em> unfair, ang<\/em> war on drugs na ito ay<\/em> inhumane (We cannot say that Kian was lucky, but it was a good thing that there was a CCTV that recorded [what happened] for people to see that this war on drugs is corrupt, unfair, and inhumane),\u201d Bungasin said.<\/p>\n

Sylvia E. Claudio, a professor from the University of the Philippines (UP) announced the rally but clarified that it was a collective idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cNagsimula sa<\/em> chat. Mabigat sa kalooban ang nangyari. Para sa ilan sa amin, parang lahat ng sinubok upang matigilan na ang patayan ay walang saysay. Hindi kami nagkulang sa paalala tungkol sa mga nauna kay<\/em> Kian. Hindi kami nagkulang sa paalala na tigilan na kasi ayaw sana naming mangyari ang nangyari nga <\/em>(It started on a chat, when what happened just felt heavy. For some of us, it felt like we tried everything to stop these senseless killings. We tried everything just to raise awareness even to those before Kian. We did everything just for this not to happen again),\u201d Claudio posted on her timeline.<\/p>\n

The post furthered that the rally aims to be peaceful and to just let its participants\u2019 creativity and feelings come out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cKung sino \u2018yung may gusto ng himagsikan, sige… (Whoever wants an uprising, go ahead\u2026) If you want that, go ahead. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":107413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[6054,21649,21473],"class_list":["post-113293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-duterte","tag-himagsikan-para-kay-kian","tag-kian-delos-santos","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}