Critics compare Duterte to Marcos

President Rodrigo Duterte has become a “globally infamous dictator” akin to the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos, an international coalition of human rights groups said, following a European Union (EU) Parliament’s resolution condemning the human rights situation in the Philippines.

Peter Murphy, chair of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), said in a statement that the Duterte administration “has now gained notoriety as a world-renowned human rights violator, if not a dictator following the likes of Ferdinand Marcos.”