- Davao City mayor hit back at Australian Ambassador Amanda Gorely
- He asked why should she bash him when he gave the slain Australian missionary instant justice
- He also said she shouldn’t be lecturing him on fairness when her gov’t can’t treat Filipinos fairly
MANILA, Philippines – Hitting back at Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Amanda Gorely for the second time after she condemned him for a controversial rape remark, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte wondered why she was criticizing him when he in fact gave her slain compatriot Jacqueline Hamill instant justice.
“Your missionary was defiled and raped. What did I give you? Instant justice, they are dead, all 16 of them. You still don’t like that?” the Philippine Star quoted him as saying, in reference to the inmates who were killed after taking Hamill and her fellow missionaries hostage inside Camp Leonor in Davao City in 1989.
Recounting how one Filipina was detained last year by Australian authorities for two weeks for supposedly carrying illegal drugs but was later released after they discovered they were all prescribed and legal, Duterte told Gorely she had no right to lecture him on fairness when her own government cannot guarantee the same for Filipinos.
“Do not talk to me about fairness. Kayong mga Australyano [You Australians], if you cannot be fair to my countrymen, shut up. What is your problem,” he said. “I don’t need you to lecture me. You listen to me.”
Gorely earlier tweeted her disapproval of Duterte’s remarks.
“Rape and murder should never be joked about or trivialised. Violence against women and girls is unacceptable anytime, anywhere,” she said.
In response, Duterte told Gorely to butt out as this was a purely political issue.
“Stay out, this is politics,” he said.
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