OMG, who the hell cares. Enough about this guy. Are the majority of users here from the Philippines or something?
The majority of users here depend on the free trade passing through the South China Sea, and have an overwhelming interest in avoiding WW3.
That the practical matter.
The moral matter is that this asshole has escalated Drug Prohibition to the level where he's sicking vigilantes on the most helpless miserable people on Earth, the street children who are often both dealers and addicts of drugs which are (unforgivably) not coffee, alcohol, or tobacco.
Any other questions? I'm here to help.
yeah fair enough right? US is raping us while thy try to feed. Fair?
What do US care about the killings here. Mind what US currently murdering in Syria. And those you murder in black cities.
Yet another tiresome, deflective accusation of hypocrisy. It's like you are incapable of understanding
tu quoque is a logical fallacy.
The US has paid for in blood and treasure, then given .ph its sovereignty twice. First in 1935 (Commonwealth) and again in 1946 (Treaty of Manila).
Your appeal to emotion ("raping us" "murder in black cities") has no power here, because we are not superstitious ignorant savages like the supporters of Duterte.
But if you want to go there, the facts speak for themselves.
February 1945: The Rape of Manilahttp://globalnation.inquirer.net/99054/february-1945-the-rape-of-manilaTo this day, much is heard of the Rape of Nanking when the rampaging Japanese Imperial Army killed 300,000 from 1937 to 1938, and raped 20,000 women in that Chinese capital.
Pitifully few, though, in the Philippines and even fewer elsewhere, know that in Manila, in February 1945, World War II at its agonizing climax brought forth 100,000 burned, bayoneted, bombed, shelled and shrapneled dead in the span of 28 days. Unborn babies ripped from their mothers’ wombs provided sport: thrown up in the air and caught, impaled on bayonet tips.
With rape on the streets and everywhere else, the Bayview Hotel became Manila’s rape center. After the dirty deed was done, nipples were sliced off, and bodies bayoneted open from the neck down.
William Manchester in his book “American Caesar,” wrote that “Once Rear Adm. Sanji Iwabuchi had decided to defend Manila, the atrocities began, and the longer the battle raged, the more the Japanese command structure deteriorated, until the uniforms of Nipponese sailors and marines were saturated with Filipino blood.
“The devastation of Manila was one of the great tragedies of World War II. Seventy percent of the utilities, 72 percent of the factories, 80 percent of the southern residential district, and 100 percent of the business district were razed…Hospitals were set afire after their patients had been strapped to their beds. The corpses of males were mutilated, females of all ages were raped before they were slain, and babies’ eyeballs gouged out and smeared on walls like jelly.”
Annually in February, a day is set aside to remember at the Memorare monument in Intramuros.
Filipinas raped by Japanese WWII troops seek compensationhttp://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/6/filipino-women-raped-by-japanese-wwii-troops-seek-compensation.htmlA group of elderly Filipinas raped by Japanese troops during World War II called for compensation from Japan on Wednesday, after Tokyo’s pledge of $8.3 million for South Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during the war.
Isabelita Vinuya, 84, the president of Malaya Lolas — a group of Filipinas abducted and raped by Japanese troops in their village — urged the Philippine government to support their demand for justice from Japan.