UN rights experts on Monday urged the Philippines' president-elect Rodrigo Duterte to eradicate provoking violence, especially against journalists, slamming his comments as dangerously irresponsible.
UN expert on summary executions Christof Heyns described recent remarks by Duterte as "irresponsible in the extreme, and unbecoming of any leader."
Duterte, 71, who won the presidential election last month, on Saturday urged the public to join his ruthless anti-crime campaign, offering people huge bounties for killing drug dealers.
Furtherly, he uttered that killing corrupted journalists is fair and justifiable as they are committing a serious actions the time they are broadcasting false information to people.
"Justifying the killing of journalists on the basis of how they conduct their professional activities can be understood as a permissive signal to potential killers that the murder of journalists is acceptable in certain circumstances and would not be punished," he said in the statement.
"Such provocative messages indicate to any person who is displeased by the work of a journalist or an activist, for example, that they can attack or kill them without fear of sanction," he said.
Duterte may not take the experts' concerns to heart: Last week he launched a seemingly unprovoked profanity-laced attack on the UN, after facing criticism from foreign and local medial groups.
(c) Yahoo Philippines
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