“Look at the iconic boy that was taken out from the rubble and he was made to sit in the ambulance and we saw it,” Duterte said, according to The Associated Press, referring to the photo of Omran Daqneesh. “Why is it that United States is not doing anything? I do not read you.”…
Pointing to the recent killings of black men by police officers in the U.S., Duterte suggested his wasn’t the only country with human rights violations on its hands.
“Why are you Americans killing the black people there, shooting them down when they are already on the ground?” he said. “Answer that question, because even if it’s just one or two or three, it is still human rights violations.”
Asked about the possible repercussions of his remarks, Duterte replied: “I don’t give a sh*t about them. They are the ones interfering.”
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