[ALMASDARNEWS] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his colorful rhetoric, has threatened to "burn down" the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
Headquarters in New York over mounting international criticism of his crackdown on suspected drug pushers, PressTV reported.
"You go and file a complaint in the United Nations, I will burn down the United Nations if you want," Rodrigo Duterte said when asked about the country’s reported human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
violations, as quoted by media on Saturday.
Addressing military personnel at an army base during a December 18 trip to the country’s southern city of Zamboanga, the tough-talking president said, "I will burn it (the UN) down if I go to America," the report continued. |