Mayor Rodrigo Duterte poses with his Uzi submachine gun in the mountainous village of Carmen in the Baguio District of Davao city in the southern Philippines in the mid-1990s. File photo: Reuters Mayor Rodrigo Duterte poses with his Uzi submachine gun in the mountainous village of Carmen in the Baguio District of Davao city in the southern Philippines in the mid-1990s. File photo: Reuters
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte poses with his Uzi submachine gun in the mountainous village of Carmen in the Baguio District of Davao city in the southern Philippines in the mid-1990s. File photo: Reuters
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Duterte threatens to throw corrupt officials out of a helicopter - and says he's done it before

The fiery-tempered former prosecutor said he once hurled a Chinese man suspected of rape and murder out of a helicopter

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Mayor Rodrigo Duterte poses with his Uzi submachine gun in the mountainous village of Carmen in the Baguio District of Davao city in the southern Philippines in the mid-1990s. File photo: Reuters Mayor Rodrigo Duterte poses with his Uzi submachine gun in the mountainous village of Carmen in the Baguio District of Davao city in the southern Philippines in the mid-1990s. File photo: Reuters
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte poses with his Uzi submachine gun in the mountainous village of Carmen in the Baguio District of Davao city in the southern Philippines in the mid-1990s. File photo: Reuters
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