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