Philippines top cop urges users to kill and burn down homes of drug lords
The Philippines’ police chief has called on drug users to kill traffickers and burn their homes, as he seeks to maintain momentum in President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial crime war that has claimed 2,000 lives.
“Why don’t you give them a visit, pour gasoline on their homes and set these on fire to register your anger,” Ronald Dela Rosa said in a speech aired on television on Friday.
“They’re all enjoying your money, money that destroyed your brain. You know who the drug lords are. Would you like to kill them? Go ahead. Killing them is allowed because you are the victim.”
Dela Rosa was speaking Thursday to several hundred drug users who had surrendered in the central Philippines.
Why don’t you give them a visit, pour gasoline on their homes and set these on fire to register your anger ... They’re all enjoying your money, money that destroyed your brain
When asked if Duterte supported Dela Rosa’s call to murder and commit arson, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella denied that was the police chief’s intent.