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Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte calls human rights activists and opponents of the death penalty “stupid”

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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdvB_CgMOvy17F1molPd6yQS881DP0nWGDQOiOwARXLmYtSMjPrBCWoEjfc_TXMXfAWMWZ5ZRnCS8u6geMfLkHY6aShvp9zpWFEhejzF7-3wuODt8nNf5x3GHCK4lQ502zlo4-5iBsJI/s1600/Philippines-President-elect-Rodrigo-Duterte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rodrigo Duterte" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdvB_CgMOvy17F1molPd6yQS881DP0nWGDQOiOwARXLmYtSMjPrBCWoEjfc_TXMXfAWMWZ5ZRnCS8u6geMfLkHY6aShvp9zpWFEhejzF7-3wuODt8nNf5x3GHCK4lQ502zlo4-5iBsJI/s400/Philippines-President-elect-Rodrigo-Duterte.jpg" title="Rodrigo Duterte" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rodrigo Duterte</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">During a speech Monday, Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte — who has sworn off interviews with the press — reiterated his support for capital punishment as a retaliatory measure and not a deterrent, disparaging human rights activists and opponents of the death penalty as “stupid.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I believe in retribution. Why? You should pay. When you kill someone, rape, you should die,” Duterte <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20160627-philippines-duterte-says-wants-death-penalty-revenge" target="_blank">said in a speech Monday</a> in Davao City, where he was mayor for two decades before winning the presidency this year and has been succeeded by his daughter, Sara Duterte. “These human rights (groups), congressmen, how stupid you are,” he added, promising to restore the death penalty. “He promised that tens of thousands of people would die, with security forces being given shoot to kill orders,” Agence France-Presse notes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“When they describe or characterise a human rights violator, these fools make it appear that the people you kill are saints, as if they are pitiful or innocent,” he said of human rights activists and United Nations officials who have publicly reprimanded Duterte for his repeated promises to kill as many violent criminals as possible and offer police who perform extrajudicial killings legal protection.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duterte <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/05/10/heavily-catholic-philippines-votes-law-order-populist-rodrigo-duterte/" target="_blank">won the presidency</a> by a wide margin in early May, campaigning on his record as mayor. Davao City remains one of the few safe places on the southern island of Mindanao, home to the nation’s largest Muslim population and jihadist gangs like Abu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Following his victory, he has repeatedly vowed to increase the number of drug suspects killed by law enforcement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/137654-duterte-cebu-drug-users-pushers-killed" target="_blank">On Saturday</a>, Duterte vowed to kill not only drug traffickers, but drug addicts. “If I couldn’t convince you to stop, I’ll have you killed… if you’re into drugs, I’m very sorry. I’ll have to apologize to your family because you’ll surely get killed.” he said in a speech, adding, “the problem is once you’re addicted to shabu [methamphetamine], rehabilitation is no longer an option.” The Philippines website Rappler notes that at least 54 drug suspects have been killed since Duterte won the presidential election.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to insisting on the return of capital punishment, Duterte has asserted that he prefers hanging to more expensive forms of execution. “I’m asking for re-imposition of death penalty so that I can hang them,” <a href="http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/06/25/1596516/duterte-insists-death-penalty-hanging" target="_blank">he said last week</a>, arguing that the influence of drugs “reduced human beings into bestial state [sic].”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also reiterated in different remarks last week that he neither believes that capital punishment deters criminals, nor does he believe deterrence is a relevant issue in reviving the practice. “Death penalty to me is the retribution. It makes you pay for what you did,”<a href="http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/06/22/1595645/duterte-death-penalty-retribution-not-deterrent">he stated clearly</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the same speech, to police, he said, “If you kill 1,000, tell them it was ordered by Duterte. Period. I will deal with everybody.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In response to Duterte’s repeated calls for the execution of drug criminals, leading drug traffickers have <a href="https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/06/filipino-drug-lords-set-1-million-bounty-duterte-police-chief/" target="_blank">placed a million-dollar bounty on Duterte himself</a>. He has responded by offering government-sanctioned bounties available to civilians if they killed the drug lords placing a bounty on his head. “If he (drug lord) puts P50 million for my life, I will put P60 million. Kill him. No questions asked. We can match each other’s price,” <a href="http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/06/24/1596319/duterte-match-drug-lords-bounty-his-head" target="_blank">Duterte said last week</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duterte also bizarrely stated on Monday that he would not run for president again if he knew that he would win. “You know, if I can go back in time, I would decide not to run for president. Honestly, swear to God. If this is just a bad dream, I hope it is,” he said Monday, “<a href="http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/06/27/1597203/duterte-admits-wanting-go-back-time" target="_blank">during his final flag ceremony as mayor of Davao City</a>.” He added a protest that his salary is not enough to maintain his common-law wife and pay his ex-wife alimony.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While Duterte has given speeches this month, he has not entertained questions from the media sine early June. “I won’t grant interviews. Sorry. It’s really a boycott,” <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/06/07/duterte-boycotts-media/" target="_blank">he announced</a>, adding the boycott would lift when his six-year term as president was over.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duterte will be inaugurated into office on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/world/asia/philippines-election-rodrigo-duterte.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Thursday, June 30</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/06/27/philippines-duterte-human-rights-activists-stupid/" target="_blank">breibart.com</a>, Frances Martel, June 27, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div>

Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte calls human rights activists and opponents of the death penalty “stupid”

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Sri Lanka to stop sending maids to Middle East

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTwFV2DRKH3a3ewZk37E4INxUhIpF-rhaSgQbEtm5mDjDY3TRFPvqunV1l5koakZhntkv094NIf23vlpCnJhCUhcIVZ464F6aPnI-xQVyJm2PKDcTajRaIg9gEavZMxV7yW7CQVNwz8w/s1600/Maids+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTwFV2DRKH3a3ewZk37E4INxUhIpF-rhaSgQbEtm5mDjDY3TRFPvqunV1l5koakZhntkv094NIf23vlpCnJhCUhcIVZ464F6aPnI-xQVyJm2PKDcTajRaIg9gEavZMxV7yW7CQVNwz8w/s320/Maids+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Colombo says decision mainly due to rights abuses.</i><br /><br />Sri Lanka’s expatriate workers, mainly housemaids and unskilled labourers, send back remittances - the island nation’s main foreign exchange earner - that help earn around $7 billion (Dh25.71 billion) a year for the $82.2 billion economy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senaratne said President Maithripala Sirisena had appointed a committee to study strategies to reduce the numbers gradually and finally stop sending maids abroad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We want to discourage the housemaids category in foreign employment because the social cost is very high,” he told Reuters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Human rights abuses and social costs due to rapes, drug addiction and child abuse in many families of housemaids, and labour shortage locally, have prompted the government to take such a decision, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The total number of departures for foreign employment declined by 12.4 per cent last year to 263,307, partly due to the slowdown of economic activities in the Middle East.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sri Lanka is already encouraging sending skilled male workers abroad instead of low-skilled women and housemaids.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2013, around 1,650 Sri Lankan housemaids complained of being physically and sexually abused by their employers, mainly in the Middle East, the latest data from the Foreign Employment Bureau showed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2013, the Saudis executed a young Sri Lankan housemaid for killing an infant left in her care, rejecting repeated appeals by the Indian Ocean island against her death sentence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Colombo recalled its ambassador from Riyadh in protest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After their Sri Lankan maid complained of too much work in 2010, a Saudi couple tortured her by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead. The maid returned home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last year, however, Saudi authorities reduced a Sri Lankan maid’s sentence for adultery from death by stoning to a three-year jail term after an appeal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: Gulfnews, June 2, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

Sri Lanka to stop sending maids to Middle East

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