German state by state. The most traditional. At any time. Check in with a web special. Take a tour of germany state by state on d w dot com. Two years ago the philippines began a brutal war against the drug gangs in which thousands of people died human rights activists and journalists charged the police with illegal killings charges which president do target as vigorously denied my guest this week here in manila is his Legal Advisor salvatore panel oh is the administration actively sanctioning and even encouraging mud on its own streets. Salvador penhallow welcome to conflict thank you for having me your president says hes old and tired and hes going to hear again about stepping down in february said ive no more ambition who needs a president whos got no more ambition theres more of an expression of will just say exasperation and disgust over certain things that do not come out as he expect. But is not stepping down who finishes turn he says guys i want to theyre not thinking of stepping down because he just wants he has one so tell the people that is not the kind of politician that will cling to a position so you cant believe what he says not really everybody is entitled to express ones frustration or express variation on
a certain sort of companies doing it cause that leader in february did it august is the time again that is a style that is why he wants his content its not just style is it you will either believe him or not he would have not won the presidency of that is not his Style Cursing is one of them being very brutally frank as another in his office in one thousand speech he said that he would hardly make a dent in his remaining four years in office if so so who needs that either if if the corruption continues if the drug menace is not stop then he would be right to say hes already failed to deliver on his promise to clear up the drug problem in three to six months theyre all there this was easy and or something iris youre right and there are various six months the drugs mechanism is being slowly dismantled he said theyd clear it up within three to six months all because according to what was this was this hyperbole is where other he was the star when
he was still a mayor he thought that the problem was not that youths and he realized when he came into power that all of the resources that it is not here overestimated his own have been within all he all reached the point do you all various tamate of the problem or underestimated the problem rather. How much of what he says these days can you actually believe that i mean ive seen you wheeled out in the press and television to explain the didnt really say what he said he said the latest example was june twenty second when he caused an uproar by saying god is stupid it is a stupid it was only questioned the logic the and the Theory Question here dont read the lips of the president you read his actions his bad language when i read the quote the quote was about adam and eve in The Garden Of Eden and he said what he did was events the apple then she wakes up adam so adamant the apple there malice was born who is this stupid because at least are asking the largest to
legions or to go to the writers of the bible that created the story its not god who created the story remember it was not god who came down and told us this is how i created you he did say that they created the bible and they gave us a serio creation now hes questioning the logic behind it because he says you make a perfect situation and you try to destroy herself its not just the logic is it hes he said he doubled down a couple of days later he said i didnt say that my god is stupid i said your god is not my god because your god is stupid yes because youll be ships reacted yes because i must because abusive they build and offensive because they didnt get exactly what he wanted to tell them if you are the christian groups or the catholic what should you be feel offended when your aunt here is being questioned you explain to the person questioning the russian r. B. I. That you dont be you dont feel sure it was a riot the Catholic Bishops Conference Of The Philippines issued a sermon criticizing people in power who boast of their own wisdom and blasts fim god as stupid so theyre accusing him of blasphemy. By your argument is wrong. They say they misunderstood the president in fact he said several days later i am all just so my god i was telling my god im not referring to he did said i know he had to apologize so he did say it is mine it is thoughts that was explain it to a Brother Visitor about one of the christian groups mr parlow is he a killer your president no it is not how you use against killers youve you have explained some of what he says is Hyperbole Exaggeration thats how you described his claim that he had roamed the streets of davos city here and he was mare and personally killed people this was an interview you gave february last year but
thats not hyperbole hes never said he killed he yes but out of selfdefense those killers or killing people and he was part of the operation how many was he killed he has not said so to my eyes he went out and killed people did he is self defense yes how many i Dont Know Who Have Dawson you have no idea was never investigated or easy too powerful to investigate was investigated by us fall out not to be guilty but human rights did that. What about the police was never investigated for murder by the Police Nobody complain you or they object their dead here rick tims well you know this country there is a rule of law and we follow certain processes you have to follow the rules youll file a complaint the preliminary investigations conducted by the prosecution to determine probable cause there is that a case is final Court Without that you cannot stick you said he killed in selfdefense he said when he was sixteen that he killed
a man for looking at him the wrong way either side of the above you even know if he did kill everybody here are that its only now that im hearing anyway anyone ever bothered to find out whether that was true and no i dont think so because i never heard of and he said that but i did hear of no one interested in the truth anymore in this administration with him whether he could whether he killed or nobody killed a man when he was sixteen berkeley though people are not interested You Are The One interest there were going to you conduct your own on investigation he was in fact elected on the back of a problem overwhelmingly or that on the on the problem back of a promise to kill wasnt he said when i stated ill stop criminality stop criminality and if i have to kill you ill kill you personally it means that he will go to the ends of the earth to perceive you if you commit crimes in this country that means your kid i guess that i cant go to ever take it really dont think you have to take this here at all face value you dont they dont take him at
fazio i dont think him literally is a lawyer here you must always remember his lawyer also lawyer deal in fact he works within the cons of the law we cant kill out of self defense yes. That was another big promise he couldnt deliver on what Didnt Stop Criminality hes stopping it he said my chase against graft and corruption seems to be endless and it says contaminated almost all Government Departments and offices thats not a claim of success is it is not a kind of clearing i was a memory of six years to do that is only the second year in a spy so many officials including relatives friends Fraternity Brothers and pointlessness so what what could you ask of the man no president has ever done that you defended him in twenty sixteen over his plan to pay bounties to police and military for killing or bringing in drug dealers you said the law allowed the policy under the concept of citizens arrest of course no doubt wasnt about
arresting citizens its about shooting them as there were no questions asked about whether they got the right person or not the accusation is the policeman killed them without any resistance but the facts is not us they play into the or are not as they claim to the last year Human Rights Watch said the Philippine National police and its agents had repeatedly carried out extra do dish will killings of Drug Suspects and then falsely claimed selfdefense you always deny this you always deny this but i still do then you should have do you we would have a complaint filed against the policeman now there are cases filed against a policeman but do process would have to go to their facing charges in court and there is trial but last october in response to a public outcry about killings especially of children your president removed the police from the anti drug operations and assigned the p. T. A. The Philippine DrugEnforcement Agency just for a few weeks so there was some substance to it otherwise he wouldnt have taken that action would he not against the police the scion of p. V. But in coordination with a policeman so nervous not really a key to results from your policy your drug war so far your police have killed more than Four Thousand Two Hundred Seventy Nine people during their operations in july twenty sixth seen and may this year and the human Rights Groups that you hate as many say as many as Twelve Thousand the u. N. Human rights group you know dispute what they claim but they say as many as Twelve Thousand have actually died as released hired killers drug syndicates etc exaggerated that killing is so much easier than toting trials and that no killing happens because there is resistance to police authorities. Otherwise there would be no can only under those circumstances yes absolutely and the other effect of your
policy is that the murder rate is actually going up in the country maybe because people are following the president ial role modeling that all marketers happen because of certain reasons coming from those who are behind that could be personally it could be gangs gangland style like drug lords scaly is are there when theyre turned suctions and the murder rate in metro manila was up by around One Hundred And Twelve percent from july twenty sixth seen to june twenty eighth in those of the Police Figures that were issued in july this year murder is only part of a crimes im saying that the crime rate im just you know eluding everything every kind of crime has been reduced as going up when he when he was running i mean theres no accountability is that there is no accountability there is accountability on the part of those who murdered the president its not the
president when he was running for president mr deterred he was quite specific on the issue of accountability he promised hed give himself a members of the Security Services immunity from prosecution and his own words were pardon given to roger you go to turkey for the crime of multiple murder Site Reggie Go to thirty so that pretty much trashes the idea of any accountability Doesnt Matter at the top of the constitution and the president has the absolute power to pardon now he tells the public as well as the policeman if you do Police Operations within the context of the law then i will do everything to protect you but if you do not in his speech in his first son a species said i have declared war against the drug lords. But Police Officers who abuse this or sarky will have hell to pay because you are worse than criminality itself that was directed to the police and you seriously think your police care
whether theyve killed the guilty or innocent person of course so bad is your police baby or the last year you were forced to go to south or they respond police bad elements yes last year you were forced to go to south korea to apologize for a serious crime committed by your anti drug forces the kidnapping and murder of a south korean businessman g. A good jew even you called it a dastardly crime but that is the noble gesture on the part of the government only spirit is expressing once apology she was kidnapped by members of your police and t. Illegal drugs group angeles. He was then Strangled Inside Camp Crummy the main headquarters of the Philippine NationalPolice Obviously doing it in the main headquarters meant that they werent scared of being found out this was business is usually just remember this is Business As Usual was you must remember that the worst of crimes are committed in any part of the country the best of countries in the world crimes are committed by even the police force of those who are talking about your police
yes but youre trying to generalize i am giving you a specific circumstance where this crimes are also plays lazy really in the celebrated in their main headquarters at no point did they seem to have been worried or tool that they had to dont like hell here i will tell you why they didnt even conceal while i will tell you why they did it because if i were the murderer i would have done it there you know why because nobody would think that kind can be committed inside the p. And p. And they can get away with it but they didnt get away with it theyre not years away yes theyre now in detention the other way of looking at that mr prendergast is there that was so commonplace that nobody would tell it apart from all the other murders that would go and thats another way of looking at it but the fact is theyre in detention and theyre facing. Charges in court you know most likely they will be prosecuted successfully you want the philippines to withdraw from the International Criminal court for many reasons were scared stiff when they announced
in february that they had begun a preliminary inquiry near a war on drugs it was not there are many reasons why this country has to woodrow first the i. C. C. Has no jurisdiction over the philippines simply because that particular law was not published at all of the constitution because it didnt appear in your prayers yet you must remember that the constitution imposes certain requirements before a law is made valid and effective that was not done here number two all the provisions of the i. C. C. Status violate our constitution and what one. It does not observe immunity from suit of the incumbent president has to get a soprano or theres only one thats against our Constitution Number two they do not recognize Double Jeopardy if one is acquitted there they can still sue the International Division of jurists code your reasons for withdrawing
a litany of poorly thought out pseudo legal arguments and so serving statements that focus on president duties fear and resentment at facing questions on the horrific campaign of extrajudicial killings that his government has indorsed bad ass theyre not buying you that is why you Shouldnt Diagnose by your excuse that is one view of a particular Human Rights Group but you must remember there is no pending case in court precisely to determine whether or not there is a valid role so we have to wait for that there is a pending case and its subject to serious shouldnt even discuss about it while the insults when this criticism while the tough talking i mean this stuff has been doing that as a mayor and you never lost an election he says when a few when you took the e. U. A few to america sons of course his favorite epithet when the few think you win friends and respect with when the filipinos voted him they fucked in all those kind
of characteristics of the press and he won overwhelmingly he when you lie about what you like that you have it so when we dont is it ever you think its what i dont know what i meant to you is a statement of fact that has been fucked and the populists electoral population of booted him in office now i have been with him an old foreign visits and the leaders of this countries are in awe of the president they praise him publicly or in the United States in europe we dont have been there ive telling you where we have been. There are countries particularly china china is in or of him of course china is included the president there praises him in public rarely does this is this is why the chinese in a recent documentary were heard telling one of your military warplanes to get out of the area of the Spratly Archipelago otherwise they would be responsible for the
consequences and your president was so hurt he said in a speech afterwards why do you say nasty words to us we have no intention of attacking he was so shocked that his new friends the chinese Couldnt Care Less what he thought and Couldnt Care Less where your Military Aircraft go as they were telling you to get well stars in chinas concerned theyre doing what they should do is so far as their security of the country is concerned and so far as the president is closer you cannot do that to us because we will fight you even if we lose in a war you dont its you dont do that to us he just meet on horses you dont like me he said thing which i know he said meekly to the child or how can you talk to us why do you say such nasty o. E. Where was the tough guy then where was the tough you ive been to places you did listen to the last words of the president you dont do that because if you do that ill fight you even if we lose. You leave here those words you only look at the first opening sentence thats where you