Rodrigo Duterte
Some of the key events about Rodrigo Duterte
- 1988Elected as Mayor of Davao City for the first time
- 1988Faced allegations of human rights abuses as mayor of Davao City
- 1995Implemented a comprehensive anti-smoking ordinance in Davao City
- 1995Admitted to killing a law student during his time as a law student himself
- 1998Established the 911 emergency response system in Davao City
- 2002Introduced a ban on the use of firecrackers in Davao City
- 2007Initiated the "Lingap Para sa Mahirap" program to provide financial assistance for medical needs
- 2009Threatened to kill rice smugglers and feed them to the fish in Manila Bay
- 2010Implemented a liquor ban in Davao City to reduce crime rates
- 2012Received the "Seal of Good Housekeeping" from the Department of Interior and Local Government
- 2013Provided immediate assistance to victims of Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban
- 2015Launched the "Byaheng DO30" program to improve public transportation in Davao City
- 2015Made a controversial joke about the rape and murder of an Australian missionary
- 2016Elected as the 16th President of the Philippines
- 2016Launched a violent "war on drugs" that resulted in thousands of extrajudicial killings
- 2016Compared himself to Hitler, expressing a desire to kill millions of drug addicts
- 2017Threatened to bomb indigenous schools, accusing them of teaching subversion
- 2018Ordered the arrest of a 71-year-old nun for "disorderly conduct"
- 2019Threatened to declare martial law in response to communist rebels
- 2020Signed an anti-terrorism law criticized for potentially stifling dissent and civil liberties
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