Duterte Draws Fire for Crude Threat to Female Rebels in Philippines

Duterte Draws Fire for Crude Threat to Female Rebels in Philippines
“It encourages state forces to commit sexual violence during armed conflict, which is a violation of international humanitarian law.”
Representative Emmi de Jesus of the Gabriela Women’s Party said
that Mr. Duterte had, in effect, given the green light for soldiers to violate women’s rights.
We will just shoot you in the vagina.’ ”
Mr. Duterte made the remarks in a speech to former rebels last week,
but the comments went largely unreported because he was speaking in his native Visayan language.
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine strongman who has earned a reputation for dirty tactics and language, was criticized on Monday for having boasted
that he had ordered soldiers to shoot female communist guerrillas in the genitals.
“Tell the soldiers, ‘There’s a new order coming from the mayor,’ ” the president said in
a speech, recalling a directive he said he had given when he was mayor of Davao City.
It “is just the latest in a series of misogynist, derogatory
and demeaning statements he has made about women,” said Carlos H. Conde, the Philippines researcher for Human Rights Watch.