Duterte hits Iceland, critics for not knowing PHL’s drug problem

The proponent of the resolution asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the Philippines for thousands of alleged extrajudicial killings linked to his war and drugs have no problem with crime, President Rodrigo Duterte indicated on Friday.

Duterte said that Iceland seemed to have no issues as regards peace and order.

"Ano ang problema ng Iceland? Ice lang. That’s your problem. You have too much ice and there is no clear day or night there. Parang alas kwatro ng hapon ang araw pati gabi," Duterte said in a speech at the 28th anniversary of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. 

"So you can understand why there is no crime, there is no policemen either and they just go about eating ice," he added.

Duterte made the remarks a day after the UNHRC voted to adopt the resolution calling for an investigation into the killings and asking the Philippines to stop the extrajudicial slays.

The resolution was adopted by a vote of 18 countries in favor, 14 against (including China), with 15 abstentions (including Japan) at the 47-member forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

He said the critics of the war on drugs did not have a full grasp of the social, economic and political problems of the Philippines.

"Hindi maintindihan nitong mga p— inang 'to na may problema tayo," the President said The distribution of drugs, the contamination continues today. At hindi na natin mahabol."

Duterte has vowed to study whether to allow UN investigators in the Philippines to investigate the deaths linked to his war on drugs and other human rights concerns.

"The human rights are coming. Good. And I’ll tell them, how many millions are affected by drugs?" Duterte said.

"I’m asking the human rights people. Is it wrong to say, 'If you destroy my country, I will kill you?' Is that a crime for a president, mayor, or a governor to say that in public?" he added.

Malacañang has said Duterte could bar UN investigators from entering the country if he finds no basis for them to conduct a probe into the human rights situations in the Philippines. —NB, GMA News