President Duterte’s rhetoric has worsened from recklessness to culpability, from accusations to confession of guilt.

His having compared himself to Hitler, who caused the slaughter of six million Jews during World War II, is a virtual confession that the extrajudicial killings of thousands of suspected drug dealers and addicts since the start of his term almost 100 days ago, have been instigated, encouraged and condoned by him.

Duterte has justified the elimination without due process of suspected criminals as a parallel to Hitler’s extermination of the Holocaust victims.

The parallelism denotes commonality of commission of mass murders even as it demeans the sacrifices of the Jews who were a persecuted people.

There is no need for proof on Duterte’s culpability because his public admission of Hitler-like killings is clear evidence against him.

EDCEL C. LAGMAN