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Duterte: Fewer slays under PDEA-led drug war should silence ‘bleeding hearts’


President Rodrigo Duterte is hoping that his decision to give the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency the lead role in his war on drugs would silence critics of the thousands of killings blamed on the bloody campaign.

“So kung ang PDEA konti lang ang patay o ‘di konti lang rin mamatay doon sa kabila. Isa lang. Wounded-in-action, dalawa. This is better or betterer, do you say?” Duterte said in an acerbic tone.

“O, diyan tayo. Walang patay so walang encounter ‘yan. So better for the bleeding hearts and the media, I hope I will satisfy you,” he added.

Duterte on October 10 signed a memorandum handing over the anti-illegal drugs operations and campaigns from the Philippine National Police to the PDEA.

“Now, kung kaya ng PDEA, palagay ko, palagay ko kaya… Tingan natin kung—pero ‘wag kayong tumingin sa akin, kindly. I’m not joking. At ‘yung nandito na ‘yan ang gusto ng lahat,” Duterte said.

“When something not to your liking is happening, do not look at me. Praise the bleeding hearts and all. Kasi ginawa ko na talaga lahat ang magagawa ko, ito na. And some of the noted writers say, ‘Act now,’” he added.

Duterte also chided his critics for shrugging off the deaths of police and soldiers because of the illegal drug trade and using the issue of alleged extrajudicial killings against the drug war.

“Ito na po. Ito ‘yung mga patay. Taguin ko na lang sa bulsa ko. You know why? Itong mga left, itong mga… Hindi naman sana bobo ang mga p— ina nila, ilabas mo ‘yan. Bakit ang tingnan dito ang patay lang sa mga suspected addicts?” he said.

“‘Yung mga sundalo ko, balewala na sa kanila and the thousand other victims who are now hooked into drugs during the time that they began in earnest dito sa drug activity until the time when I acted on the problem,” he added.

“Ang pinakamasakit dito, they have cheapened the deaths of my soldiers and policemen and the one million three hundred and you saw it with your naked eyes ‘yung mga Pilipino na payat na, na parang skin and bones surrendering everyday to government,” Duterte said. —NB, GMA News

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