Duterte dares US to file human rights complaint before UN

President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday night dared the United States government to file a human rights complaint against him before the United Nations over his war on drugs.

"We are members of the United Nations. Akala ko ba may mga abogado kayo? If you have something, you go to the United Nations assembly. You shout your complaint, and you cry there and then ask for a motion that I, the Philippines be investigated," Duterte said during a speech in General Santos City.

"Then if there's a result, you submit it, you call our attention and then we talk," he added.

Duterte made the suggestion as he complained against the US' "nitpicking" and using the international stage to reprimand him over alleged extrajudicial killings of drug suspects in the Philippines.

He said that even when he was still a mayor, he had been the US' "favorite whipping boy' on human rights. Duterte had been accused during his term in Davao City of sanctioning the killings of criminals allegedly carried out by the vigilante group called the Davao Death Squad.

"Noong mayor ako okay lang. Naging presidente ako, I carry on my shoulder the sovereignty of the people. You do not reprimand me or chastise me in public. I won't accept.. nakakainsulto iyang ginagawa ninyo, and every time you talk about the suspension of aid... iyong assistance, 'We will not give you.' You have done that to the so many presidents of this country," Duterte said.

Curses at US

The President also cursed at the US as he mentioned the US' Millennium Challenge Corporation Board's decision to defer the selection of the Philippines as a recipient of a multi-million dollar development grant over concerns on "rule of law and civil liberties."

He also cited the US State Department's cancellation of a firearms' sale to the Philippines.

"Akala mo every time you criticize, you always connect it with the aid. Bullshit you guys. You know what, I tell you straight, you invaded my country, sat on it for 50 years and you have the gull to say to us that you we do not give you the aid. Son of a bitch. You are a son of a bitch. Do not do that to us," Duterte said.

The president, meanwhile, said that the Philippines will be able to survive without aid from the US.

He said that the US can "swallow" its assistance and just give it to the thousands of homeless Americans.

"I've been to China. China [said] we will you something $50 billion. Tang****** Millennium mo, iyo na 'yan. Tulong mo sa mga Amerikano na natutulog sa labas," he said.

Duterte apologized for "having this bad mouth" but insisted that he had been cursing against the US for trivializing the country's drug problem.

He reiterated that "nothing can stop him" from solving the country's drug problem.

He said that his only goal is "the preservation of my country."

"It is to protect the next generation so that there will be Filipinos with sound mind and sound body to run this country when we are no longer here on this planet," Duterte said. —ALG, GMA News