{"id":94675,"date":"2017-03-20T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=94675"},"modified":"2017-03-20T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:56:27","slug":"amid-opposition-duterte-vows-intense-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/20\/amid-opposition-duterte-vows-intense-drug-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid opposition, Duterte vows intense drug war"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: Rody Duterte\/Facebook.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Duterte remains unfazed after an impeachment complaint has been filed against him last week, an EU resolution condemning his campaign against illegal drugs and efforts to bring him to the ICC.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before he left \u00a0for Myanmar and Thailand yesterday, the President held a press conference at the Davao International Airport saying that he could not be stopped from pursuing his drug campaign despite opposition efforts to bring him down.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cListen to me: I will deliver my promises even if it will cost me my life, my honor and the presidency. I can let these go, but I will comply with my promise,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe drive against corruption, the drive against criminality and drugs will resume and it will continue and it will be brutal if they do not understand the role of government. Suppression includes all,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the \u201cOperation Double Barrel Reloaded\u201d was announced two weeks ago, 34 were already killed and 2100 were arrested. Prior to its comeback, authorities had assured that the second wave of the anti-drug campaign would be less violent as its predecessor as more safety measures had been employed particularly with the participation of the police.<\/span><\/p>\n

The President had always been firm about his stand against illegal drugs. He had slammed the international community for condemning his actions and responded to the EU saying that it should not meddle with the affairs of the country nor impose its western culture \u00a0and views. <\/span><\/p>\n

Duterte said that he does not care about drug criminals losing their lives over legitimate operations so long as no member of the police or military is killed. He once again warned all drug lords, operators and suspects to stop their operations or face the consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo drop shabu if you want to be alive. If you do not want trouble with the government, stop trafficking. I will not for a moment, be out of focus on that. Whatever I promised, I will rise and I will fall on this,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just follow the rules under the Revised Penal Code\u2026if you are a criminal, and you are caught in the act, do not fight because if you place a person\u2019s \u00a0life in jeopardy, my order is to shoot you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do not want to see military \u00a0and dead men on my side, getting killed. I\u2019d rather that the criminals, however thousands or millions they are, they should be the first to go\u2026drop the shabu and nobody will die tomorrow,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Duterte remains unfazed after an impeachment complaint has been filed against him last week, an EU resolution condemning his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,483],"tags":[12524,3103,12300,12477,16817,14801],"class_list":["post-94675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-drug-war","tag-european-union","tag-extrajudicial-killing","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-operation-double-barre","tag-president-roddrigo-duterte","mauthors-phoebe-balubar","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94675","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=94675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}