The call of President Rodrigo Duterte to host in the Philippines a global summit on human rights is a mockery like the ogre presiding over a meeting of predators.

A gross violator of human rights in his deadly campaign against suspected drug users and peddlers has no credibility to convene a summit on human rights to include principally violator countries.

The fact that other countries also violate human rights is not a justification for the unabated transgression of human rights by the Duterte administration which has resulted in summary killings of thousands of victims.

It is fallacious reasoning for Duterte to accuse human rights groups and advocates of meddling in Philippine local affairs because the protection and promotion of human rights are global concerns as pronounced in international conventions and even domestic legislation.

There is no rhyme nor reason for the continuing perpetration of these extrajudicial killings which should be stopped immediately without any contrived summit or self-serving tirades against human rights crusaders.

EDCEL C. LAGMAN