“The Abu Sayyaf, [they’re] no longer [hungry] for independence in Mindanao. They are no longer hungry for autonomy. They are hungry for a fight to establish a caliphate in Southeast Asia,” Duterte said. “It’s either the caliphate or nothing.” He also urged the military to train more to fight terrorism and the ongoing war on drugs. “You have to train more. You have to reinvent yourself from almost a soldier of uniform to all of you being intelligence operatives,” he said.
In a media interview, Duterte even threatened that he would eat the militants alive to avenge the death of 15 people who were killed in Davao bombing. “If I have to face them, you know I can eat humans,” he was quoted as saying during the interview. “I will really open up your body. Just give me vinegar and salt, and I will eat you.”
The Abu Sayyaf group has been responsible for claiming the lives of more than 120,000 people since the 1970s and is also blamed for repeated abductions and the worst terror attacks seen in the country. The group has also beheaded foreigners, including two Canadians in April and June. “They are ISIS-inspired and not actually ISIS supported. They are just ISIS wannabes,” Defence Department spokesman Arsenio Andolong was quoted as saying. The president, who has accused of operating a death squad during his time as mayor, chose to remain silent on the subject.
Edgar Matobata, 57, a self-acclaimed hit man had recently accused the former mayor of organising a death squad that is responsible for killing more than 1,000 criminals in Davao. Matobata also said that Duterte had killed a government agent in 2007. On Saturday, the Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said that it was “highly unlikely” that the UN would conduct a probe on Duterte. “Any UN investigation can only be done on the invitation of the host country,” Jose said, adding that it was unlikely that the UN would be invited to investigate the recent extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.
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