Filipinos in Thailand back Duterte's war on drugs
By Wasamon Audjarint
The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- WHILE the Philippines tourism secretary urged the media to “tone down” coverage of President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly drug war, complaining that reports on extrajudicial killings were scaring away foreigners, Filipinos living in Thailand voiced approval of the tough action.

 

Almost 2,000 Filipinos flocked to the Royal Thai Navy Hall yesterday to meet Duterte, who has become a hero to many of his compatriots.

 

Accompanying Duterte on a trip to Thailand, Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo insisted that the Philippines was a safe destination but said journalists were making the country a hard sell because of their focus on the killings.

 

“Help us because … it’s really difficult for me to sell the Philippines, especially when extrajudicial killings becomes the topic,” Teo told reporters in Duterte’s entourage. Teo said tour operators abroad were “always” asking her about the issue, citing Asia and Europe as regions where people were particularly concerned. “To the media, please tone down a little the extrajudicial killing [reports],” she said.

 

About 5.9 million tourists visited the Philippines last year, compared with 32.6 million for Thailand.

 

Duterte was elected last year after promising during the campaign to eradicate drugs in society by killing tens of thousands of people.

 

Since he took office in June last year, police have reported killing 2,594 people in the drug war while rights groups say thousands more have been killed in a state-sanctioned campaign of mass murder. However, Filipinos in Thailand had a different view.

 

“He’s my idol. And things being said about him from the outside are much politicised. They just want to disturb his administration, which goes by our constitution,” said Reagan Bronola, a Filipino who has settled to teach in Bangkok for 10 years.

 

“Things hadn’t changed since Marcos,” Bronola told The Nation, referring to the former dictator President Ferdinand Marcos. “Then comes Duterte. He does what he promised to do. Despite what others may see, I think he wants peace in the Philippines.”

 

Filipina teacher Janice Fuentes shared the same sentiment. “He has cleansed the Philippines. Corruption is not that big now,” Janice said. Like Reagan, she didn’t believe criticism surrounding Duterte on human rights issues. “It’s just not true,” she said.

 

“It makes us cry how he has changed the Philippines. If I get to speak with him, I will just thank him,” she said. “We love him so much.”

 

Angelou Barcelona, from Mlang, Cotabato, is married to a Thai national and has lived in Thailand for seven years. She told The Philippine Daily Inquirer that she voted for Duterte. She also expressed admiration for the president’s war on drugs and corruption.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30309981

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-03-23

I agree
This is a man who needs total respect for all these extrajudicial killings being of sound mind having the capacity to think, reason, and understand for others. Not !!

Total Fruitcake !!


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He need stop his drug war and start a war against poverty in his country.also when is this guy do anything for develop a infrastructure?He has not even built a single bridge or tunnel hospital highway or decent internet yet!

5 hours ago, webfact said:

“To the media, please tone down a little the extrajudicial killing [reports],” she said.

 

Yes, please stop telling the truth.

 

Stop exposing the extra judicial slaughter that has happened.

 

I want a nice, pink, fluffy world where nothing bad or inconvenient truths are reported.

 

Yep, that sounds like the sort of moronic comment a ''tourism secretary'' would make.

Edited March 23, 20179 yr by Bluespunk

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Like Reagan, she didn’t believe criticism surrounding Duterte on human rights issues. “It’s just not true,” she said.

Yes it is.

 

His actions along with tougher penalties will go along way to stopping the drug problem and use in the Philippines.

It's a shame Australia doesn't have the balls to implement similar ...  

the drug problem is rampant in Australia ....  

I never liked filipinass anywhere in the world outside they country jail, and now I know why.

 

 

50 minutes ago, steven100 said:

 

His actions along with tougher penalties will go along way to stopping the drug problem and use in the Philippines.

It's a shame Australia doesn't have the balls to implement similar ...  

the drug problem is rampant in Australia ....  

 

 

What is rampant is how some people still do not understand in 2017 that WAR IS LOST

 

What do you expect, that hundreds millions people on the world suddenly stop using drug because a retarded monkey from any government told them to do so ? Only USA was able to do this, and now even USA is getting smarter, so it's hopeless to support any of these stupid stupid killings.

 

 

 

55 minutes ago, steven100 said:

 

His actions along with tougher penalties will go along way to stopping the drug problem and use in the Philippines.

It's a shame Australia doesn't have the balls to implement similar ...  

the drug problem is rampant in Australia ....  

Didn't work here.

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn't work here.

 

 

Didn't work anywhere in the world ! So I wish to people who think that killing will help, to have drug addicts as kids, so maybe they will think again before telling that killing sick people is the solution.

 

 

5 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Didn't work here.

I did have some effect .

Although I dont know to what degree.

Anyone have any figures for drug use in Thailand , now and previously ?

2 minutes ago, BsBs said:

 

 

Didn't work anywhere in the world ! So I wish to people who think that killing will help, to have drug addicts as kids, so maybe they will think again before telling that killing sick people is the solution.

 

 

The kids wouldn't be drug addicts if they didn't get mixed up with the wrong crowd.

The drugs would not have been pushed onto the kids if the supplier wasn't around anymore to do his pushing .

4 minutes ago, sanemax said:

I did have some effect .

Although I dont know to what degree.

Anyone have any figures for drug use in Thailand , now and previously ?

It left a lot of innocent people dead.

 

That is an effect I suppose.

7 minutes ago, sanemax said:

I did have some effect .

Although I dont know to what degree.

Anyone have any figures for drug use in Thailand , now and previously ?

 

80% of people in jail in Thailand are locked because of drug ! It has always been like this and only raise yearly. An evidence that you can put them in jail or kill them as much as you want, people will still take drug more and more.

 

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, steven100 said:

The kids wouldn't be drug addicts if they didn't get mixed up with the wrong crowd.

The drugs would not have been pushed onto the kids if the supplier wasn't around anymore to do his pushing .

 

 

Wrong crowd will always be there.

 

Suppliers have only been there and will always be.

 

But don't tell me that you seriously think what you write ? You cannot, just by reading, understand how much you are wrong and how much it is stupid to keep thinking the way you do ? Seriously, no offense, but it's beyond my understand that someone still doesn't know in 2017 !!!

 

 

 

 

Working here in Davao with the locals for a couple of weeks at a time,

this is Duterte,s  home base they love him here, 

Having a confessed  to ordering  ( extermination)  when he was mayor of Davao, 

The trouble with this type of gun ho mentality , innocents get taken out by corrupt police, who try to extinguish any complaints about their own violations of the law 

and there are many examples here of such deaths,

Now the majority of people affected by these killings have very little money to fight for justice , and run the risk of extra judicial killings , 

Killing does not work, it will never work, 

a total rethinking on a man made problem by ladies and men who are forward thinking.

Now 2017 if you take in the roaring twenties up till now a long time has passed and still no valuable  solution has been found, and that is a sad indictment on humanity.

I myself do not know what the answer or solution to drugs is but there would be many parts to the complete dealing with the world epidemic of  drugs , killing sure is not one of them .

4 minutes ago, BsBs said:

 

80% of people in jail in Thailand are locked because of drug ! It has always been like this and only raise yearly. An evidence that you can put them in jail or kill them as much as you want, people will still take drug more and more.

I disagree, many people who may take drugs now keep well away from them, knowing they will spend a long time in jail .

Yes his compatriots do seem to admire him, I must admit the current climate in PP has made me nervous about visiting.

3 hours ago, sanemax said:

I disagree, many people who may take drugs now keep well away from them, knowing they will spend a long time in jail .

 

You really know nothing and are no able to understand anything...

 

 

2 hours ago, BsBs said:

 

You really know nothing and are no able to understand anything...

 

 

I am just speaking from experience , although I fully understand that is limited .

Drugs used to be quite rife on the streets , plenty of small time sellers, selling to fund their habit .

   Most got jailed for a few years and then came out .

Some went back to selling, got caught again and got 20 year jail sentences

Others decided not to go back into selling , thus, drugs are not as prevalent as before

   Although I am aware that there are still probably traffickers , sellers and takers . 

 

He is doing a great job...good on him ...not like all you gut less ...idiots...the streets of pholippines are much safer now thanks to him..

No drugs being sold now...no more coruption...thongs have got much better ...so stop talking about things you don't know about..

Go have another Leo...

8 hours ago, BsBs said:

 

80% of people in jail in Thailand are locked because of drug ! It has always been like this and only raise yearly. An evidence that you can put them in jail or kill them as much as you want, people will still take drug more and more.

 

 

 

 

Well how many drugaddicts do they have in Singapore??

unbiased reporting   55555   only 2  

Edited March 23, 20179 yr by Rhys

11 hours ago, sanemax said:

I did have some effect .

Although I dont know to what degree.

Anyone have any figures for drug use in Thailand , now and previously ?

we should leave it to the philippinos, how to deal with their own problems.
under thaksin only 2000 drugdealers died, but it had i great impact, most of the isan-schools where drug-free after that, and millions of thai parents will be thankful to thaksin forever.
in the philippines, the extremly dangerous gangs (sputnic, bahala na,..) are the problem, they have the monopoly for drug dealing, but extortions, robberies and contract killing is their daily business. they all have a gang-tatoo, so are easyly identfied. its not a war against drugs, its a very praiseworthy war against the scum of the philippines

 

 

Edited March 23, 20179 yr by Moonmoon

Addiction explained. 

 

Edited March 23, 20179 yr by Moonmoon

why the war on drugs is a huge failure and a real good example of a way out of it.

 

19 hours ago, sanemax said:

I disagree, many people who may take drugs now keep well away from them, knowing they will spend a long time in jail .

correct  .....    triple the sentences imposed for drug use ,   shoot the pushers,  shoot the dealers,    then the drug pandemic will lesson ..

 

The problem in Australia is that they are too soft on drug users, now they provide rooms & needles to shoot up !  absolutely crazy    !!

I say harsh penalties,   and shoot the pushers    ....

21 hours ago, leeneeds said:

The trouble with this type of gun ho mentality , innocents get taken out by corrupt police, who try to extinguish any complaints about their own violations of the law 

and there are many examples here of such deaths,

Now the majority of people affected by these killings have very little money to fight for justice , and run the risk of extra judicial killings , 

Killing does not work, it will never work,

Agree.  When you give the police broad authority to kill people with impunity, they will.  Not just drug dealers and thugs, but anyone who disagrees with them or looks at them the wrong way.  Duterte is basically at war with the poor people of the PI, the most vulnerable.  I suspect many more will die, deservedly or not, he doesn't care.      

shoot the pushers ...  shoot the dealers ....    educate kids early in School that drugs are deadly to your body  ...