Rodrigo Duterte had attracted controversy last year as well over his joke that he had wanted to rape an Australian missionary who was killed in the Philippines. Photo: Aaron Favila/APManila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte came under fire on Saturday for making a second joke about rape, with Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton leading online outrage and a rights group calling his sense of humour “sickening”. In a speech aimed at lifting troops’ spirits at a military camp on Friday after he imposed martial law across southern Philippines, Duterte told them they were allowed to rape up to three women. In a second post she wrote: “Duterte is a murderous thug with no regard for human rights. It’s important to keep pointing that out & that rape is never a joke.” Phelim Kine, a deputy director with Human Rights Watch’s Asian division, described the joke as a “sickening attempt at humour”.

Source: Mint May 27, 2017 16:18 UTC