“You kill an NPA today and I’ll pay you 25,000” pesos, Duterte said in a speech at an airbase in central Cebu city, referring to New People’s Army guerrillas. Backing up his offer, the brash-talking president encouraged state forces to go for the kill. “If you work really hard to crawl across the forest, you’ll surely be able to shoot even just one. When a rebel leader recently warned that the guerrillas could kill one soldier a day, Duterte countered by threatening to kill five rebels daily and offering to train tribesmen as militias and give them bounties to kill the insurgents. I will cross-examine you,” said Duterte, a former state prosecutor, referring to Muslims fleeing from violence and persecution in Burma.

Source: thestar February 15, 2018 15:11 UTC