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Duterte vows to eat Abu Sayyaf militants

Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/9/2/davao-city-blast-rtr-090216.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Police investigators inspect the area of a market where an explosion happened in Davao City. Lean Daval Jr., Reuters</div></figcaption></figure></div>VIENTIANE - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks.&quot;They will pay. When the time comes, I will eat you in front of people,&quot; Duterte told an audience of Filipinos late on Monday night while in Laos for a regional summit.&quot;If you make me mad, in all honesty, I will eat you alive, raw.&quot;Duterte often hurls abusive insults at critics and is waging a brutal war on crime in which nearly 3,000 people have been killed since he took office on June 30.His aides often urge reporters against taking Duterte&#x27;s comments literally, cautioning that the 71-year-old former lawyer speaks in a crude language of the people.During the election campaign earlier this year Duterte attracted widespread criticism for saying he had wanted to rape a &quot;beautiful&quot; Australian missionary who had been sexually assaulted and murdered in a Philippine prison riot.Duterte, 71, also claimed to keep two mistresses in cheap boarding houses who he took to short-stay hotels for sexual encounters.Duterte on Monday offered a particularly vivid description of how he would like to eat Abu Sayyaf militants, who killed 15 soldiers last month and are accused of a <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/02/16/davao-blast-death-toll-rises-to-14-67-others-hurt">bombing</a> in his home city last week that claimed 14 lives.&quot;I will really carve your torso open. Give me vinegar and salt and I will eat you. I&#x27;m not kidding,&quot; Duterte said, according to an official video of his speech posted on Tuesday.&quot;These guys are beyond redemption.&quot;The Abu Sayyaf are a small band of Islamic militants based on remote southern islands of the mainly Catholic Philippines and are listed by the United States as a terrorist organization.They are notorious for kidnapping foreigners to extract ransoms, and this year beheaded two Canadian hostages.Duterte also on Monday caused a major diplomatic rift with the United States after branding President Barack Obama a &quot;son of a whore&quot; who would wallow like a pig.Duterte made the remarks in response to comments by Obama&#x27;s aides that the US president would raise concerns about the Philippine war on crime when the pair met in Laos.Obama abruptly <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/05/16/obama-cancels-meeting-with-duterte-after-insult">cancelled</a> the meeting, which was scheduled for Tuesday, because of the tirade.<div>© 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse</div>

VIENTIANE - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks.

VIENTIANE - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks.