As Bloomberg reports, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked the U.S. Special Forces trainers in Mindanao to leave, saying their presence inflames the island's Muslim rebels. This is the same Philippine leader who has supported the extra-judicial killing of drug dealers.
Although we cannot be sure, his real reason for asking U.S. troops to leave may be that he plans a genocidal assault on the islands Muslim population. If so, he doesn't want first world witnesses as his troops decimate or eliminate a perpetual thorn in the side to Manila.
Such a policy would certainly be consonant with Duterte's kill-problem-people approach to governing a peaceful nation.
