President Duterte on Thursday confessed that he had sinned because of the extrajudicial killings that resulted from his administration’s brutal war on drugs. “Ang kasalanan ko lang, yung mga extrajudicial killings (My only sin) are the extrajudicial killings,” the President said in a speech at the oathtaking of new career executives in Malacañang. I told the military, ‘Did I steal anything, a single centavo? Did I prosecute somebody that I jailed?’ My sin is [the] extrajudicial killings,” he said. The President slammed the United Nations’ special rapporteur for coming to the country to investigate the killings while “exercising functions, which [they] are not supposed to do, [and] belongs to government.”Duterte also hit back at his critics for accusing the government of being behind the extrajudicial killings.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 27, 2018 21:22 UTC