MANILA, Philippines — “Let a woman fight a soldier, she will surely die,” President Rodrigo Duterte said in Filipino in a televised briefing on Monday, referring to the death of Jevilyn Cullamat, daughter of Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat, during an encounter between members of the Phillippine Amry and he New People’s Army (NPA).
[Original statemetn: “Babae ilaban mo sa sundalo, patay sigurado.”]
Before making that remark, Duterte took a jab at groups like the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives, calling them “legal communist fronts.”
“I think 75 percent, at least in Mindanao, are Lumads,” he said, using the term Cebuano term for “indigenous people.”
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