The mayor says they all deserved to die. “What I want to do it so instill fear,” he told reporters in February. “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.” Duterte, says the Philippine Daily Enquirer, rules over a city “with the highest number of gangland-style killings in the country.”
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