if he gone mad he would have not allowed people to do demonstration and protesting against him. normally, we see people who are against the norms and against laws on tv series but when on real lives, we always see ourselves on the right path even when its not.
Allowing rightfully-outraged people to protest the death squads, which have committed acts of extrajudicial killings on a scale reportedly approaching genocidal levels, does not make the state-sanctioned mass murder OK.
Obviously. Well, not obviously to you.
Here, let's try to fix that regrettable lack of basic human decency and mangled understanding of effective governance:
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war an act of 'genocide'Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recently admitted what has been plain since he took office and the killings started: He's committing genocide.
"Hitler massacred 3 million Jews," he said. (The actual number is 6 million). "Now ... there's 3 million drug addicts ... I'd be happy to slaughter them" to "finish the problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition".
Nearly 3000 people have already been gunned down, either by police or vigilante death squads, encouraged by Duterte, who has promised immunity. About 600,000 have also turned themselves in, many now caged in hideously crowded prisons that already look like concentration camps.
But most of the world has remained silent. President Obama has not publicly condemned these actions, and the United States actually pledged US$32 million ($44.8m) in aid to support Philippine law enforcement - and not only for the usual political reasons. Instead, this genocide is being ignored because, for too long, the dehumanisation of people who use drugs and calls for their death have been an acceptable part of the "drug war".
Indeed, while human rights organisations have condemned Duterte, many felt the need to explicitly reject any connection between Duterte's victims and Hitler's. "The comparison of drug users and dealers to Holocaust victims is inappropriate and deeply offensive," Todd Gutnick, the communications director for the Anti-Defamation League, told Reuters.
I disagree. I am both a child of a Holocaust survivor and a person who has struggled with addiction.
I do not believe anyone deserves to be murdered either for their religion or because they have a substance that governments have declared illegal coursing through their veins.
Until we recognise that killing people for taking drugs we dislike is no more acceptable than murdering them for blasphemy, practising the wrong religion or witchcraft, we will not have decent - let alone effective - drug policy.
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