Teddy gives Harry the F word on Twitter, says spox exposed rights workers to killers

Former Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño has given presidential spokesman Harry Roque the "F" word on Twitter after the secretary said on Monday that human rights groups were being used as "unwitting" tools by drug lords to undermine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

Casiño said Roque's statement has placed human rights advocates in danger of being targeted by assassins.

Fuck you @attyharryroque. You know this is not true. You also know that saying this expands the target of the drug war & brings your former colleagues in the human rights community in the cross hairs of Duterte’s death squads. https://t.co/CT38Dsuryl

— Teddy Casiño (@teddycasino) March 26, 2018

"Fuck you @attyharryroque," Casiño tweeted.

"You know this is not true. You also know that saying this expands the target of the drug war and brings your former colleagues in the human rights community in the cross hairs of Duterte’s death squads," he added.

GMA News Online has sought Roque for comment but the secretary has yet to respond as of posting time.

Roque, before joining the Duterte administration as the President's spokesman, was a human rights lawyer. He was also a former party-list lawmaker.

Thousands of extrajudicial killings blamed on Duterte's war on drugs have been widely blamed on death squads.

Duterte and members of his administration are facing raps before the Internatioanl Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity related to the killings. —NB, GMA News