President Rodrigo Duterte of
Philippines on Wednesday mocked Chelsea, daughter of former US President Bill
Clinton for criticising him over a joke about rape.
Duterte questioned whether she
had just come to terms with her father’s affair with a White House intern,
referring to Clinton’s escapade with Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s.
Addressing Navy officers, Duterte
fired back at Chelsea Clinton, who had tweeted that he was a “murderous thug
with no regard for human rights.”
“I was not joking, I was being sarcastic,” Reuters quoted the Philippines leader as saying.
“I will tell her, when your father, the president of the United States, was screwing Lewinsky, the girl there in White House, how did you feel? Did you slam your father?” Reuters quoted the Philippines leader.
Duterte’s rape remark came during
a speech aimed at reassuring soldiers that he would take full responsibility
for any backlash to martial law, which he imposed on Sunday on Mindanao island.
He said he would not tolerate
abuses but joked that if any soldier was to rape three women, “I will admit it,
that’s on me.”
It was not the first time Duterte
had made a joke about rape.
He caused outrage ahead of his
presidential election win last year when he recalled a 1989 prison riot in
which an Australian missionary was killed, and inmates had lined up to rape
her.
Duterte said the victim was
“beautiful” and as mayor of Davao city where the riot took place, he should
have been first in line.
He later apologised and said he
meant no disrespect to women or rape victims.
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