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Philippine Prez Rodrigo Duterte takes thinly veiled dig at US
Vientiane, Sept 9: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took a thinly veiled dig at the United States, complaining that colonizers who killed many Filipinos are now raising human rights concerns with him
President Barack Obama was among several world leaders who listened to Duterte's brief speech at the East Asia Summit in the Laotian capital of Vientiane.
Obama
earlier
canceled
a
meeting
with
Duterte
after
the
Philippine
leader
referred
to
him
in
comments
to
reporters
as
a
"son
of
a
b***h"
and
warned
him
not
to
discuss
the
deaths
of
thousands
of
suspects
in
an
anti-drug
campaign
[I
am
no
American
puppet,
you
'SOB':
Philippines
Prez
to
Obama]
Two
Philippine
Cabinet
officials
said
Duterte
did
not
criticize
any
country
or
leader
by
name
in
his
speech.
Other
diplomats
who
heard
the
speech,
however,
felt
he
was
referring
to
the
United
States,
which
colonized
the
Philippines
after
defeating
its
former
ruler,
Spain.
An
Indonesian
diplomat
said
Duterte
held
up
a
picture
of
Filipinos
killed
in
colonial
times
to
underscore
his
point.
The
diplomat
spoke
to
reporters
on
condition
that
he
not
be
named
because
of
the
sensitivity
of
the
issue.
Philippine
officials
refused
to
release
Duterte's
remarks,
which
were
not
included
in
his
prepared
speech
made
on
Thursday.
The
Department
of
Foreign
Affairs
in
Manila
said
the
president
provided
an
explanation
of
how
human
rights
records
should
be
assessed
in
the
context
of
the
historical
record.
"In
the
passionate
intervention
of
President
Duterte,
he
underscored
the
need
to
take
a
long
historical
view
of
human
rights,
mindful
of
the
atrocities
against
the
ethnic
people
of
Mindanao,"
the
department
said
in
a
statement,
referring
to
the
southern
Philippine
region
where
American
forces
were
involved
in
deadly
clashes
with
Muslim
Filipinos
in
the
early
1900s.
Duterte,
who
assumed
the
presidency
in
June,
has
had
an
uneasy
relationship
with
the
U.S.,
his
country's
longtime
treaty
ally.
He
has
said
he
is
charting
a
foreign
policy
that
is
not
dependent
on
the
U.S.,
and
has
moved
to
reduce
tensions
with
China
over
rival
territorial
claims.
The
tough-talking
president
has
also
blasted
U.N.-appointed
human
rights
experts
and
rights
watchdogs
who
have
expressed
concerns
over
the
extrajudicial
killings
of
more
than
2,800
suspected
drug
dealers
and
users
since
Duterte
took
office.
More
than
600,000
others
have
surrendered,
apparently
out
of
fear
of
being
killed.
After
the
flap
over
Duterte's
earlier
remarks,
he
and
Obama
met
briefly
on
the
sidelines
of
the
Laos
meetings
and
shook
hands.
One
Cabinet
member,
Jesus
Dureza,
said
he
asked
Duterte
how
his
talk
with
Obama
went.
"It
was
OK,"
Dureza
quoted
Duterte
as
saying.
"He
told
me,
'we
can
talk
some
more
at
another
time.'"
The
summit
ended
with
Laos
turning
over
the
chairmanship
of
the
10-nation
Association
of
Southeast
Asian
Nations
to
Duterte,
whose
country
will
host
the
annual
diplomatic
gathering
next
year.
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