"Shoot them!" Rodrigo Duterte issued a vitriolic warning to residents of Manila shantytowns who challenge strict confinement rules, in the hope of stemming the coronavirus epidemic in the Philippine capital. The president called on the police and the army to "open fire" against the crowd who would challenge the police, while the social crisis has threatened the immense underdeveloped metropolis in quarantine since March 15. "Do not attack doctors, medical personnel because it is a serious crime. If someone causes trouble, I will bury him! It's understood?" , declared the leader with a high verb, on April 1, during a televised intervention mixing Tagalog and English.
The tribune who insulted Barack Obama or Pope Francis is used to shock formulas. He has already used expeditious methods in a bloody "war on drugs" . This one made more than 12,000 dead, with great reinforcement of extrajudicial executions. Hence the fear
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