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Philippines presidential candidate attacked over rape remarks
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Apr 17, 2016 10:16pm |
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| Author | AFP in Manila |
| News Date | Monday, April 18, 2016 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rodrigo Duterte, a presidential candidate in the Philippines, was criticised on Sunday after a video surfaced of him apparently joking about a murdered Australian rape victim.
Duterte, who promises the mass extermination of suspected criminals if he is elected next month, appears in a video uploaded on YouTube making remarks about the Australian missionary.
Jacqueline Hamill was working in a prison in Davao in the southern Philippines when she was raped and killed during a riot by inmates in 1989. Duterte was the city’s mayor at the time.
“They raped all of the women … There was this Australian lay minister … when they took them out … I saw her face and I thought: ‘Son of a bitch. what a pity … they raped her, they all lined up. I was mad she was raped but she was so beautiful. I thought, the mayor should have been first,” Duterte is shown telling a crowd of laughing supporters at a campaign rally.
Duterte, who boasts about the extrajudicial killings of suspects by vigilantes during his time in Davao, is leading in the runup to the 9 May election, according to the latest opinion poll published on 3 April.
His rivals, women’s groups and social media commentators on quickly denounced his remarks. |
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