Manila – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would “be happy” to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country.
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In a rambling speech on his arrival in Davao City after a visit to Vietnam, Duterte told reporters that he had been “portrayed to be some cousin of Hitler” by critics.
Noting that Hitler had murdered millions of Jews, Duterte said: “There are three million drug addicts (in the Philippines). I’d be happy to slaughter them.
“If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have…,” he said, pausing and pointing to himself.
“You know my victims. I would like (them) to be all criminals to finish the problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition.”
Duterte was voted to power in a May election on the back of a vow to end drugs and corruption in the country of 100 million people. He took office on June 30 and over 3,100 people have been killed since then, mostly drug users and peddlers, in police operations and in vigilante killings.
Does this guy think before speaking?
Hilter yemach shmo failed to exterminate the Jews and ended up shooting himself in the mouth. His body was then burned using fuel oil or petrol.
… Unless you believe he escaped to South America.
I can’t think of any goal that Hitler fulfilled.
Some role model for President Philippines!
It always makes me laugh when I hear non aryans, or in this case, clearly someone who is the exact opposite of the type the germans loved, sing praises to the swine hitler. A guy that looks like this would have been shot on site in nazi germany.
Take a wild guess. Who do you think he wants to win in November?
No-one seems to mind that he is shooting drug users and innocents who look like drug users. They could be our children.