Philippines leader likens himself to Hitler, wants to kill millions of drug users. Maybe including Manny Pacquiao.

 

 

 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte likened his deadly war on crime to Hitler's efforts to exterminate Jews

 

Philippines president likens himself to Hitler, wants to kill millions of drug users. He said, I am like Hitler, I want to kill millions of Drug Users." Maybe including Manny Pacquiao who is 'not sorry' for using drugs.

 

Pacquiao 'not sorry' for drug use

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Germany has since told the Phillipines' president that Hitler comparism is "Unacceptable" 

The German foreign ministry said in a statement that it had asked the Philippine envoy "to come to the ministry for a discussion on this issue".

"Any comparison of the singular atrocities of the Holocaust with anything else is totally unacceptable," ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told reporters earlier and reiterated in the statement.

Germany, Europe's top economy, has expressed serious concerns about Duterte's crackdown, which has left more than 3,000 people dead in three months and threatened a breakdown of the rule of law in one of Asia's most chaotic democracies.

The president, who has launched an aggressive offensive against drug dealers since he took office this summer, went on to say that “Hitler massacred three million Jews” and  “there’s three million drug addicts.”

“I’d be happy to slaughter them,” said the democratically-elected president of a U.S. treaty ally.

His remarks were quickly dismissed by World Jewish Congress president, Ronald Lauder, who called them “revolting.” Duterte not only grossly misrepresented how many Jews died during the Holocaust (historians put the number at around 6 million), but also managed to compare drug users to Jews.

In the days before this summer’s presidential election, outgoing President Benigno Aquino warned that Duterte’s rise reminded him of Hitler’s. “I hope we learn the lessons of history,” Aquino said. “We should remember how Hitler came to power.”

“You know my victims,” he said. “I would like…to finish the problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition.”