“I will apologize to you, but if you have noticed, my statement was almost a satire,” Duterte told a pre-dawn news conference Friday in the southern city of Davao. Duterte had told government officials in a speech on April 5 that European governments “can’t even solve” the problem in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Duterte also said then that he was “willing to accept refugees” from Myanmar if Europe would take in others displaced there as well. “They keep on criticizing us, Aung [San Suu] Kyi and the others. Suu Kyi carries the title State Counsellor.

Source: Manila Times April 13, 2018 16:07 UTC