The Standard - 2016 June 6 - Monday

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VOL. XXX NO. 114 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 MONDAY : JUNE 6, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Marcos: I got no votes in 113 areas

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QUIT, RODY TELLS 3 PNP GENERALS

‘Do not wait to be humiliated,’ Duterte tells top cops By John Paolo Bencito

DAVAO CITY—President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday urged three high-ranking police generals with alleged links to the illegal drug trade to resign or be humiliated.

Speaking before crowds of his staunch supporters at the Crocodile Park grounds in Maa, Davao City, Duterte also said that cases against police officers that were dismissed would be reviewed for further action. “Corruption must stop. I will ask three generals there in [Camp] Crame to resign. Do not wait for

me to name you in public because I will only humiliate you,” Duterte said. Duterte said crooked cops usually avoided conviction by waiting a few years until the complainants or witnesses were no longer available, then had their cases dismissed. “I won’t agree to that,” he said. “All policemen with cases—you’re

all wanted.” During the campaign, Duterte alleged that at least three highranking officials in the Philippine National Police had ties with illegal drugs but refused to name them. “Don’t take this as a joke,” he said, addressing himself to the police on Saturday. “I’m not joking. Next page

Davao party. President-elect Rodrigo Duterte speaks to supporters during a victory party in Crocodile Park in Davao City on Saturday night. The city of Davao was in party mode to celebrate the election of its mayor as the country’s next president. AFP

‘No room for Leni at agency for poor’

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China slams US ‘provocations’ at summit SINGAPORE—An Asian security summit ended in discord Sunday after China denounced US “provocations” in the South China Sea and declared it does not fear trouble in the contested waters. “The South China Sea issue has become overheated because of the provocations of certain countries for their own selfish interests,” Admiral Sun Jianguo

told an annual forum in Singapore. Sun, who stressed China’s desire for a peaceful solution, spoke one day after US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said any Chinese construction on an islet near the Philippines would prompt unspecified “actions” by the United States and other nations. On a visit to Mongolia Sunday, US

Secretary of State John Kerry also warned Beijing against setting up an air defense identification zone over the disputed waters. “We would consider an ADIZ, an ADIZ zone, over portions of the South China Sea as a provocative and destabilizing act, which would automatically Next page


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