Duterte tells Philippine police to shoot dead lockdown troublemakers

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“My orders are to the police and military, also village officials, that if there is trouble or the situation arises that people fight and your lives are on the line, shoot them dead.”

Police personnel hold up placards reminding people to stay at home amid concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Manila on March 31, 2020. – The main Philippine island of Luzon, home to 55 million people which includes the capital Manila, is in the second week of lockdown to contain the spread of the disease.

Hours before Duterte gave the order in a speech late Wednesday, nearly two dozen people from a slum community in the capital Manila were arrested for holding a protest that accused the government of failing to provide food aid to the poor. The Philippines has so far detected 2,311 cases and reported 96 deaths, but the country has only begun ramping up testing and so the number of confirmed infections is expected to keep rising.

The president’s latest comments drew an immediate rebuke from rights groups who urged the government to provide much-needed relief supplies instead of issuing threats of violence.

 

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