Duterte on Trudeau raising human rights, EJKs: It's a personal, official insult

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he would not let a foreigner like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau question the state of human rights in the Philippines amid his war on drugs.

"I said I will not explain. It is a personal and official insult. That is why you hear me throwing down epithets, curses, nagmumura, bullshits, and everything because it angers me," he told reporters in a press conference.

“When you are a foreigner, you do not know exactly what is happening in this country. You do not even investigate… I said, ‘Why don’t you investigate first and find out the truth?’” he added.

Trudeau on Tuesday said he raised the issue of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the Philippines with Duterte.

The Canadian official said Duterte was receptive to his comments about the alleged extrajudicial killings in the country.

However, during the press conference, Duterte said, "My advice to everybody, the ones I cursed publicly: Do not get your documents from the opposition and from the communists, because I said, they are all falsified."

Earlier in the day, Trudeau told reporters he "mentioned human rights, rule of law, and specifically, extrajudicial killings as being an issue Canada is concerned with.

Trudeau said it should not be a surprise that he raised the controversial issues as Canada has earned a reputation for having discussions on rule of law and human rights firmly.

Asked how Duterte responded, Trudeau said: “Duterte was receptive of my comments. Throughout, it was a cordial and positive exchange.”

Presidential spokesman Secretary Harry Roque earlier said that Trudeau must have taken up the issue of human rights with President Duterte in private.

Duterte and Trudeau had a bilateral meeting on Tuesday on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Manila.

"If he did, he did so privately. Didn't hear it any of the public meetings,"  Roque in a report on "24 Oras."

Roque on Monday said the issue of human rights was not taken up in the bilateral meeting between Duterte and US President Donald Trump on Monday.

However, the White House, in its own briefer on the meeting, said the issue of human rights was taken up "briefly" in the context of the Philippines anti-drug campaign. — BAP, GMA News