'We made this pre-election, thinking that we’d never have to release it,' the political org said before.
in 2018 and described as a “former mayor who talked more like a Mob boss than a President.”
“These are all leaders who’ve won elections in their countries while restricting basic freedoms to tighten their hold on power,” political scientistJustifying his “strongman” tag, he added that Duterte enabled extrajudicial killings by the police and encouraged vigilante justice in his bloody “war on drugs” campaign that killed an estimated 12,000 people.
“As for not sending anyone to jail for criticizing him, Senator Leila de Lima, Duterte’s most forceful critic, has been detained on drug charges that HRW says are ‘politically motivated,'” Bremmer said in May 2018, referring to the Human Rights Watch. “Just this week, the Philippines’ Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, another fierce Duterte critic, was removed from her post following an 8-6 vote by her fellow justices; Duterte pushed hard for her ousting, calling himself an ‘enemy’ of hers and threatening to forcibly remove her should it come to that,” he added.
“His government dismisses evidence of his drug war death toll, substantiated by international rights organizations, as ‘alternative facts.’ He has tried to harass and intimidate United Nations officials charged with investigating the evidence,” Bremmer continued.by Merriam-Webster as ” one who leads or controls by force of will and character or by military methods.”
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