[ti:President Duterte Changes and Defends Philippine Drug War] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.48]Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is changing his deadly war on drugs. [00:07.96]The change came after the killing last October of a South Korean businessman [00:13.92]by Philippine police officers working on the drug war. [00:18.68]The police agency blamed for killing the businessman [00:22.68]has been suspended from anti-drug efforts. [00:27.16]Duterte has put the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in charge of anti-drug efforts. [00:35.31]Duterte said the Philippine military would also assist efforts [00:40.48]to stop illegal drug selling and use in the Philippines. [00:45.52]The businessman, Jee Ick-joo, was picked up by police [00:50.84]and quickly killed, according to news reports in the Philippines. [00:56.32]The news reports said police led his family to believe [01:01.04]Jee was still alive for several weeks, [01:04.48]as they continued to ask for ransom payments. [01:09.36]Police offered no evidence that the businessman had any connection to illegal drugs. [01:16.40]Duterte spoke this week to 400 police officers [01:21.20]reportedly under investigation for corruption and other misconduct. [01:27.92]He said corrupt police would be sent for two years [01:32.40]to a southern island that is a stronghold of Islamist militants. [01:38.56]Duterte also spoke about former Colombian President [01:42.75]Cesar Gaviria's recent column in the New York Times. [01:47.50]The column was titled, "President Duterte Is Repeating My Mistakes." [01:53.97]Duterte called Gaviria an "idiot" for warning that [01:58.88]"throwing more soldiers and police at the drug users does not work." [02:04.40]Gaviria wrote in the New York Times column that doing so is "not just a waste of money, [02:12.56]but also can actually make the problem worse." [02:17.08]Reuters news agency reported that Duterte said his war on drugs [02:22.80]is different than Colombia's because "shabu," or methamphetamine, [02:28.00]is the common drug choice in the Philippines. [02:32.12]The drug damages the brain. [02:35.76]Duterte said the effects of cocaine, [02:39.00]the drug of choice by Colombia's sellers and users, are not as bad. [02:44.68]Last week, Catholic Bishops in the Philippines wrote a letter that was read at church services. [02:53.20]The letter called on Catholics to speak out against the violent drug war. [02:59.56]"Let us not allow fear to reign and keep us silent," the bishops wrote. [03:05.16]Human Rights Watch has been critical of Duterte's war on drugs. [03:12.12]The group says that more than 7,000 Filipinos have been killed [03:17.18]in the war on drugs since Duterte became president in June of 2016. [03:24.64]Human Rights Watch has asked for the United Nations to investigate. [03:30.76]Phelim Kine, the Asian director for Human Rights Watch [03:35.00]said that "the Philippine police won't seriously investigate themselves, [03:40.12]so the UN should take the lead in conducting an investigation." [03:45.32]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM