{"id":24007,"date":"2020-10-20T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/20\/im-the-one-philippines-president-takes-responsibility-for-drug-killings"},"modified":"2020-10-20T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:28:26","slug":"im-the-one-philippines-president-takes-responsibility-for-drug-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24007","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m the one&#8217;: Philippines president takes responsibility for drug killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In televised address, Rodrigo Duterte says he would \u2018gladly\u2019 go to jail over drugs killings carried out during drug war<\/p>\n<p>Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has said he has no problem with being held responsible for the thousands of killings under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/01\/if-its-drugs-you-shoot-and-kill-duterte-orders-philippine-custom-chief\">his government\u2019s war on drugs<\/a>, adding that he was ready to face charges that could land him in jail, though not charges of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s televised remarks on Monday night were among his clearest acknowledgement of the prospects that he could face a deluge of criminal charges for the bloody campaign he launched after taking office in mid-2016.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/20\/im-the-one-philippines-president-takes-responsibility-for-drug-killings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In televised address, Rodrigo Duterte says he would \u2018gladly\u2019 go to jail over drugs killings carried out during drug warPhilippine president Rodrigo Duterte has said he has no problem with being held responsible for the thousands of killings under his g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,927,86,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-international-criminal-court","category-law","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions\/24008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}