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[00:00.24]The Philippine president-elect has a new program to fight crime.
[00:05.85]President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said people should go after drug dealers themselves.
[00:12.92]In a speech, he said people with guns should shoot and kill drug dealers
[00:19.00]who refuse to be taken to a police station.
[00:22.64]The same is true, he said, if drug dealers threaten people with a gun or a knife.
[00:29.08]"Please feel free to call us, the police,
[00:32.72]or do it yourself if you have a gun ... you have my support," Duterte said.
[00:39.20]"Shoot him, and I'll give you a medal."
[00:42.68]His speech was reported on by the Associated Press.
[00:47.96]Duterte won the May 9 presidential election
[00:51.80]on a promise to end crime and corruption within six months of taking office.
[00:58.04]But his tough talk during and immediately after the presidential election has alarmed some.
[01:05.00]Human rights groups said that citizens could use the president's words
[01:10.12]to kill people they don't like by saying they were drug dealers.
[01:14.64]Rafendi Djamin is Amnesty International's Director for South East Asia and the Pacific.
[01:22.36]"As leader of the Philippines, the president-elect must protect and uphold human rights,
[01:29.00]not reject them," he said. "That includes the right to life, due process and fair trial."
[01:36.56]As the longtime mayor of Davao City,
[01:39.76]Duterte put in tough penalties for crime.
[01:42.88]But Human Rights Watch said he went too far,
[01:46.60]using death squads to kill more than 1,000 people.
[01:51.16]I'm Bruce Alpert.