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| Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a joke about rape today in a speech to Filipino diplomats. |
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a new joke about rape on
Friday, saying he would congratulate a rapist who could carry out the crime
even knowing he would die.
The often-foul mouthed Duterte made the joke in a speech to Filipino
diplomats in his southern home town of Davao as he defended his bloody war on
crime which has left thousands dead since he took office last year.
"What I don't like are kids (being raped.) You can mess with, maybe
Miss Universe. Maybe I will even congratulate you for having the balls to rape
somebody when you know you are going to die," for your crime, he said,
implying the rapist would be lynched.
It was the latest in a series of off-colour jokes by Duterte who openly
boasts of having mistresses and often makes sexual remarks about women.
Speaking in his rambling style, the president also boasted to the
diplomats that he faked tuberculosis to escape mandatory military training in
college.
But he also reiterated his vow to continue his bloody war on drugs
despite accusations that thousands of suspects had been killed by police and
vigilantes since he took office.
"Human rights? That is bullshit to me," he said, recalling how
he called then-US president Barack Obama "a son of a whore" after
Washington criticised the wave of killings.
Police say at least 3,200 people were slain
in their anti-drug operations but rights groups charge that thousands more have
been killed by vigilante groups.
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