A FOREIGN journalist became the latest subject of President Rodrigo Duterte’s cussing in public on Thursday after he was pressed on his administration’s war on illegal drugs, which has resulted in thousands of people killed since he took office.
Shortly after arriving from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Duterte cursed award-winning British journalist Jonathan Miller, the Asia correspondent of Britain’s Channel 4 News, after he simply asked him about his intention to build a new world order with China and Russia.
“P***** ina mo” [Son of a bitch], Duterte said after a lengthy rant against the United States for criticizing his campaign against illegal drugs.
He then asked Miller: “No more?” to which the reporter replied: “No more.”
“You cannot think of questions. Give me the meaning of hypocrisy, and I will address myself to the international viewers.
After Miller asked him about the new world order he intended to build with Russia and China, Duterte pressed on the United States’ failure to stop the war in the Middle East, its policies toward Iraq and Panama and its killing of authoritarian leaders.
Duterte likewise slammed the United States for lecturing him on human rights when he said it failed to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and accused it of losing its principles by passing a law allowing lesbian and gay marriages.
In the same rant, Duterte said mayors and other officials involved in the illegal drug trade would soon die and follow Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa, who was killed in prison after allegedly shooting it out with the policemen who were serving a search warrant very early in the morning.