He was in the news today for joking about how he'd liked to have been first to rape a woman who was raped to death, but it turns out there's much worse to him.
When he was mayor of Davao he praised and encouraged the Davao Death Squads. He would go on TV and announce the name of suspected criminals, who would then be murdered by the DDS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davao_death_squads#Alleged_involvement_of_Rodrigo_Duterte
The Human Rights Watch did an investigation on him and said there was enough evidence to file murder charges.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/17/rodrigo-duterte-rise-philippines-death-squad-mayor
http://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016...o-death-squad-says-hell-kill-100000-criminals
Over a 1000 people were killed by the DDS.
Regarding the mass extermination of criminals comments he wants to execute people even for lesser crimes, boasting that if he comes to power he will execute 100,000 criminals under his administration and that human rights for criminals is a "Western concept".
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/691527/dutertes-secret-in-keeping-davao-city-phs-safest-kill-criminals
His ascension in the polls is relatively new though. 5 different polls put him first starting from late March.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_presidential_election,_2016#Opinion_polling
Oh, and he doubled down on his rape comments:
Will it hurt him? Well...
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 citys 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.
When he was mayor of Davao he praised and encouraged the Davao Death Squads. He would go on TV and announce the name of suspected criminals, who would then be murdered by the DDS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davao_death_squads#Alleged_involvement_of_Rodrigo_Duterte
"Summary execution of criminals remains the most effective way to crush kidnapping and illegal drugs"
If you are doing an illegal activity in my city, if you are a criminal or part of a syndicate that preys on the innocent people of the city, for as long as I am the mayor, you are a legitimate target of assassination."
Referring to the arrest of a suspected rice smuggler, Duterte spoke out in the state senate saying, "If this guy would go to Davao and starts to unload (smuggled rice) I will gladly kill him."
The Human Rights Watch did an investigation on him and said there was enough evidence to file murder charges.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/17/rodrigo-duterte-rise-philippines-death-squad-mayor
http://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016...o-death-squad-says-hell-kill-100000-criminals
Duterte publicly admitted his direct links to the Davao death squad during a May 24 live broadcast of his weekly television talk show. Am I the death squad? True. That is true,
Over a 1000 people were killed by the DDS.
Regarding the mass extermination of criminals comments he wants to execute people even for lesser crimes, boasting that if he comes to power he will execute 100,000 criminals under his administration and that human rights for criminals is a "Western concept".
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/691527/dutertes-secret-in-keeping-davao-city-phs-safest-kill-criminals
His ascension in the polls is relatively new though. 5 different polls put him first starting from late March.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_presidential_election,_2016#Opinion_polling
Oh, and he doubled down on his rape comments:
It was not a joke. I said it in a narrative, he said. I was very angry when I spoke. I said: Sons of whores, she is as pretty as an American movie star. They got to her before me. So kill them all.
Will it hurt him? Well...
Even when he called Pope Francis a son of a whore in a speech last November, his followers in the devoutly Catholic country quickly forgave him.