Duterte hits EU for suggesting rehab clinics ‘that offer drug fix’

President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday criticized the European Union (EU) for supposedly suggesting "a health-based solution" to the country's problem with illegal drugs.

In a speech delivered before Filipino-Chinese businessmen in Pasay City, the President said that the EU wanted the Philippine government to build clinics where drug users could go and get a dose of the substance that they want to take.

“Ang EU, they communicated to us and they want a health-based solution for the drugs. Alam mo ang mga p—ina niya, they want us to build clinics then that we should, instead of arresting or putting them in prison pareho sa ibang countries," Duterte said.

"You go there and if you want shabu they will inject you or give you shabu then you go out then if you want marijuana there’s a place there. Government-sponsored idiotic exercise. Then if you want cocaine they will give you cocaine and if they want heroin they will give you heroin,” he added.

Duterte said that following EU’s suggestion would only do more harm than good as he pointed out the negative effects of illegal drug use.

“And our people will just go there and consume every chemical until kingdom come, until they are crazy like the four million contaminated. I’ll give it a very liberal increment of something like seven, eight hundred out of their minds shrunk brains and they are all over the Philippines,” Duterte said.

“Who will answer for this? Who will answer for those who died? The 77 children almost everyday you look at the papers, a child one year, two years, three years raped and killed," he added.

"Who will now answer for this? EU? The United Nations? The Human Rights Commission? How about the lives of the innocent killed because of shabu? Hinoholdap sa jeep, sa truck then they go inside houses and rape the mother and all of the children there. Who will answer for that injustice?” Duterte said.

Duterte reiterated that his war on drugs would continue until the Philippines is rid of every drug suspect.

“Son of a b—, you are worrying about – it’s not 10,000, I will place it at two for those who resisted arrest and were killed. I will answer for that. I will take the consequences," Duterte said.

My order was arrest them if possible but if they confront you with a violent resistance and if you think that you will die, p—ina, patayin mo. And I accept the consequences,” he said as the crowd applauded. —NB, GMA News