{"id":2424,"date":"2016-09-09T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T10:03:52","slug":"philippine-president-threatens-to-eat-islamist-militants-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/09\/09\/philippine-president-threatens-to-eat-islamist-militants-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine President threatens to eat Islamist militants alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that whenever recently elected Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has the chance to speak publicly, he just can\u2019t suppress his overwhelming desire to call other world leaders as \u201csons of bitches.\u201dIn May, he used the expression to describe Pope Francis after the pontiff\u2019s visit caused a traffic jam in the capital of Manila. In August, he said the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines was \u201cgay\u201d and the \u201cson of a whore\u201d because the diplomat criticized Duterte\u2019s suggestion he would have liked to have been the first to rape a missionary who was gang raped and killed in the president\u2019s hometown of Davao in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this weekend, he threw the same insult U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s way, prompting Obama to cancel a meeting the two had scheduled in Laos this week. His reasoning? Obama criticized his shoot-to-kill policy for drug dealers, which has left more than 2,000 dead since June.As with most times Duterte says something so offensive that it requires a public apology, his office released a written statement to try to clear up the mess.\u201cWhile the immediate cause was my strong comments to certain press questions that elicited concern and distress, we also regret it came across as a personal attack on the U.S. president,\u201d Duterte said in a statement. \u201cOur primary intention is to chart an independent foreign policy while promoting closer ties with all nations, especially the U.S., with which we have had a long-standing partnership.\u201dBut it didn\u2019t take long for Duterte to find another podium and take things too far once again \u2014 this time threatening to not only execute Islamist militants loyal to terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf, but to eat them alive. \u201cThey will pay. When the time comes, I will eat you in front of people,\u201d he said Monday. \u201cIf you make me mad, in all honesty, I will eat you alive, raw\u2026I will really carve your torso open. Give me vinegar and salt and I will eat you.\u201dThe controversial president has caused a stir at home in the Philippines, where Duterte has repeatedly said he would kill anyone \u2014 including his own children \u2014 if he thinks they are using drugs. After the U.N criticized his tough response, Duterte came up with a simple solution: threatening on Aug. 21 to leave the world body if it tries to police him at home again. That\u2019s left his administration\u2019s appointees and aides scrambling to issue apologies at a press conference, explaining that Duterte only made the remarks because he was \u201ctired, disappointed, hungry.\u201d\u201cWe must give him leeway,\u201d Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Junior said the next day. \u201cHe is also human.\u201dIn an interview with al Jazeera last month, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella admitted the job of constantly defending Duterte is a tough one, but also said some of the president\u2019s most offensive remarks sound so aggressive because of translation difficulties.\u201cI understand that\u2019s why my task is to be able to interpret him and act as a conduit and bring out the true intention of the president,\u201d Abella said.So far, the strategy of immediately apologizing on his behalf seems to work. On Tuesday, the White House said that while a formal meeting is now off the books, Obama may meet informally with Duterte while attending a summit in Laos.\u201cI would not expect a formal bilateral meeting, but I think we\u2019ll have an opportunity to interact with him, as with all leaders,\u201d U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that whenever recently elected Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has the chance to speak publicly, he just can’t suppress his overwhelming desire to call other world leaders as “sons of bitches.”In May, he used the expression to describe Pope Francis after the pontiff’s visit caused a traffic jam in the capital of Manila. In August, he said the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines was “gay” and the “son of a whore” because the diplomat criticized Duterte’s suggestion he would have liked to have been the first to rape a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}