{"id":31470,"date":"2016-12-30T00:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rodrigo-duterte-i-once-threw-a-man-from-a\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T00:28:15","slug":"rodrigo-duterte-i-once-threw-a-man-from-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rodrigo-duterte-i-once-threw-a-man-from-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Duterte: I once threw a man from a helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Philippine leader says he will throw corrupt officials from a helicopter midair, adding that he did it to a man before.}<\/p>\n

Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, has threatened corrupt government officials by saying he would have thrown them off a flying helicopter, warning that he had personally carried out the action before and had no qualms about doing it again.<\/p>\n

The former prosecutor and governor said that he once hurled a Chinese man suspected of rape and murder out of a helicopter.<\/p>\n

“If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out. I have done this before. Why would I not do it again?” Duterte said during a speech to victims of a typhoon on Tuesday, a clip of which was posted later on a video feed of the president’s office.<\/p>\n

According to police, more than 5,900 people have been killed since Duterte took office in late June and declared a war on drugs, leading to fears of mass extrajudicial killings and a breakdown in the rule of law.<\/p>\n

Duterte’s latest threat comes just a few weeks after he admitted killing people during his 22 years as a mayor of Davao city, sometimes riding a motorcycle looking for “encounters to kill”.<\/p>\n

He said those killings were part of legitimate police operations, including a hostage incident. Some senators have warned Duterte that he risks impeachment over his comments.<\/p>\n

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Duterte also said that six people arrested last week during a seizure of more than half a tonne of methamphetamine, known locally as “shabu”, in the capital were fortunate he was out of town.<\/p>\n

“They were lucky I was not in Manila that time. If I had known there were that much shabu inside a house, I would definitely kill you,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Let’s not make any drama, I will personally gun you down if nobody else will do it.”<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear when or where the helicopter incident Duterte spoke of took place.<\/p>\n

His spokesman, Ernesto Abella, suggested it may not have actually happened.<\/p>\n

“Let’s just say, ‘urban legend’,” Abella said without elaborating.<\/p>\n

Duterte has at various times claimed he killed people.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Rappler in late 2015, before he took over the presidency, he said that he recently killed three people. <\/p>\n

During the same period, responding to reports that “he killed 700 people,” he said: “They underestimate the figures … [I killed] around 1,700.”<\/p>\n

The UN’s top human rights envoy has called for an investigation into Duterte’s claims of killing people, to which Duterte last week responded by calling him “stupid”, an “idiot” and a “son of a bitch” who should go back to school.<\/p>\n

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