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Q: New Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, second from left, talks with outgoing President Benigno Aquino III during inauguration ceremony Thursday, June 30, 2016 at Malacanang Palace grounds in Manila,... (Associated Press) 
  
 MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines, with some hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he will undercut one of Asia's liveliest democracies amid threats to kill criminals en masse. 
  
 The 71-year-old former prosecutor and longtime mayor of southern Davao city won a resounding victory in May's elections in his first foray into national politics. 
  
 Duterte, who begins a six-year term as president, captured attention with promises to cleanse the poor Southeast Asian nation of criminals and government crooks within six months — an audacious pledge that was welcomed by many crime-weary Filipinos but alarmed human rights watchdogs and the influential Roman Catholic church. 
  
 Shortly after Duterte's election win, policemen launched an anti-drug crackdown under his name, leaving dozens of mostly poor drug-dealing suspects dead in gunfights with police or in mysterious circumstances. 
  
 Days before his swearing in, Duterte was threatening criminals with death if they wouldn't reform. 
  
 "If you destroy my country, I will kill you," he said in a warning to criminals in a speech during the last flag-raising ceremony he presided as mayor in Davao city this week. 
  
 Vice President Leni Robredo, a human rights lawyer who comes from a rival political party, was sworn in earlier in a separate ceremony. Vice presidents are separately elected in the Philippines, and in a sign of Duterte's go-it-alone style, he has not met her since the May 9 vote. 
  
 In a country long ruled by wealthy political clans, Duterte rose from middle-class roots. He built a reputation on the campaign trail with profanity-laced speeches, sex jokes and curses that sideswiped even the widely revered pope and the United Nations. 
  
 His brash style has been likened to that of presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, although he detests the comparison and says the American billionaire is a bigot and he's not. 
  
 Duterte is the first president to come from the country's volatile south, homeland of minority Muslims and scene of a decades-long Muslim separatist insurgency, where he said his central Philippine-based family migrated in search of better opportunities. ||||| MANILA—Jimmy Vosotros was found dead along a highway on the Philippine island of Cebu last month, his hogtied body wrapped like a mummy in garbage bags and packing tape and a rope around his neck. 
  
 A message left at the scene invoked this country’s man of the moment: President Rodrigo Duterte. “I’m a bandit, Du30,” it said, using common shorthand for the man driving a law-and-order push. 
  
 The killing, and others recently, offers a glimpse of what may be to come in this fast-growing country, a crucial U.S. ally in Asia. 
  
 Mr. Duterte, the long-serving mayor of Davao City in the southern Philippines, was sworn in as president on Thursday, having comfortably won elections in early May after pledging to wipe out criminals. He advocates the killing of suspected lawbreakers and has publicly backed vigilante death squads estimated to have killed over 1,000 people in Davao. 
  
 “Kill them all,” Mr. Duterte told a rally in March, referring to criminals and suspects. “When I become president I’ll order the police and the military to find these people and kill them.” During the campaign, Mr. Duterte said 100,000 Filipinos would die during the coming purge. 
  
 Mr. Duterte has tapped a loyal lieutenant from Davao, a former city police chief, Ronald Dela Rosa, to head the national force starting Thursday. Mr. Dela Rosa recently told reporters the president’s target of stamping out crime in six months is achievable, as long as drug suspects are relentlessly pursued. 
  
 New Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s public support of murder of suspected criminals is feared to have encouraged a wave of extrajudicial killings and vigilante attacks. Photo: Getty Images 
  
 “They will be given the right to remain silent—forever,” he said. 
  
 Police shot dead 54 suspected drug dealers in the six weeks after the election, according to police officials—a sharp increase from earlier periods in a country where killings are often tied to local authorities. Police killed 39 suspected drug dealers from Jan. 1 to May 9 during the campaign season. 
  
 Guidelines legitimizing the use of deadly force only as a last resort were strictly observed in all cases, said national police spokesman Wilben Mayor, adding that Mr. Duterte’s election had reinvigorated police efforts to tackle drug dealers. 
  
 At least 13 more people, including Mr. Vosotros in Cebu, were killed in what police say they believe were vigilante attacks of the kind encouraged by Mr. Duterte, though full investigations haven’t concluded. Local police said they were still investigating the case of Mr. Vosotros, and haven’t determined if he was involved in crime, or why he was targeted. Police haven’t disclosed the cause of death. 
  
 While seven of those killings occurred in Mr. Duterte’s home city of Davao, and followed a well-established pattern there, the other six happened on central Philippine islands where the apparent targeting of criminals by vigilantes is rare, according to local police. 
  
 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on June 8 that he was extremely disturbed by Mr. Duterte’s “apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killing.” 
  
 Mr. Duterte’s spokesman, Salvador Panelo, said Mr. Ban had been misled by “incorrect news reports,” and that Mr. Duterte “has not endorsed, cannot, and never will endorse extrajudicial killings.” In an interview with the Journal during the campaign, Mr. Duterte said he advocated shooting criminals who resist arrest, but not summary executions. 
  
 The election of Mr. Duterte is already having a chilling effect, said Jose Luis Gascon, chairman of the Philippines’ human-rights commission, with would-be vigilantes emboldened, and critics of the new president afraid to speak out. 
  
 Communities have begun enforcing long-ignored local curfews for minors, anticipating Mr. Duterte’s plan to impose one nationally. In Manila, hundreds of street children were rounded up in mid-June for disobeying an order to be off the streets by 10 p.m. Local police dubbed the sweep “Operation Rody,” after the president’s nickname. 
  
 Authorities elsewhere are offering money for dead criminals and suspects, after Mr. Duterte proposed using leftover campaign funds to pay rewards for deceased drug lords. 
  
 Tomas Osmeña, the newly elected mayor of Cebu City, said he would pay cops around $1,500 for dead suspects, including an alleged drug lord and two associates killed in a recent raid by local police. 
  
 A drug suspect was killed in a shootout in Manila on June 25. President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has declared a war on drugs and crime. Photo: Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images 
  
 Mr. Osmeña said in an interview that the payouts weren’t bounties. Philippine policemen face hefty legal bills if they’re sued after a fatal shooting, and the $1,500 was meant as an “assurance” that they could do their duty without worrying about money, he said. 
  
 “My primary obligation is to the victims of criminals,” he said. “If this creates an element of fear among drug pushers because they think I’m a born-again Charles Bronson, then I want them to feel that.” 
  
 Opponents of Mr. Duterte’s proposed assault on suspected criminals say it risks weakening the rule of law and deterring foreign investment. 
  
 U.S. President Barack Obama called Mr. Duterte to congratulate him on his election win, but said he reminded the tough-talking president of his obligations to respect human rights. 
  
 Mr. Duterte met with outgoing President Benigno Aquino III on Thursday morning, before being sworn in as president for the next six years. Opponents of his purge of criminals have pointed out he must swear to uphold the Philippine constitution, which includes provisions about the primacy of human rights. 
  
 Residents of Davao City, where Mr. Duterte was mayor since 1988, say he improved law and order. But crime rates in the city remain high—contrary to the perception of many voters. 
  
 Vigilante death squads there have killed over 1,400 alleged criminals, some of them children as young as 12, over the past two decades, according to the Tambayan Center for Children’s Rights, a local nongovernmental organization, while Davao police have shot hundreds more suspects they said were resisting arrest. 
  
 Norma Helardino's son was killed by a vigilante death squad. She says her son was wrongly accused of being a drug dealer. Photo: Trefor Moss/The Wall Street Journal 
  
 Yet crime figures show that since 2010, Davao City has experienced crime levels comparable with other Philippine cities, while having the country’s highest incidence of murder. 
  
 Human Rights Watch investigated the city in 2009 and determined that “police were directly involved” in death-squad killings, according to Phelim Kine, deputy director of the group’s Asia division. The Davao police have repeatedly denied the existence of any death squad, attributing the killings to gangland violence. A Department of Justice probe into the Davao murders was abandoned in May shortly after Mr. Duterte’s election. 
  
 Mr. Kine said Davao police officers acted as handlers who “provided the gunmen with training, weapons and ammunition, motorcycles, and information on the targets” after compiling hit-lists with community leaders. 
  
 Shortly after Mr. Vosotros was slain, three suspected drug dealers were killed on the neighboring island of Negros. 
  
 Jeffrey Buencuchillo, the first victim, was found at dawn by a sugarcane field on the outskirts of Talisay. He had three bullet wounds and his left hand was almost completely hacked off. 
  
 “I’m a gangster, a thief and an addict,” said a note with the body. “Don’t follow me, or you will be killed next.” 
  
 Six hours later, Habib Into was shot dead by unknown assailants as he rode his motorbike into the district of Calatrava. 
  
 Local police are investigating both murders. Mr. Habib was believed to be a prominent drug dealer, Calatrava police said, while Mr. Buencuchillo was understood to be a small-time pusher, according to Talisay police. 
  
 Talisay police chief Hector Balbon speculated that both men could have been killed in vigilante attacks by off-duty officers, since they were shot with standard police-issue .45 caliber bullets. He said there were no witnesses or firm evidence to support the theory, though. 
  
 Write to Trefor Moss at Trefor.Moss@wsj.com |||||
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Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines, with some hoping his maverick style will energize the country, but others fearing he will undercut one of Asia's liveliest democracies amid threats to kill criminals en masse. The 71-year-old former prosecutor and longtime mayor of southern Davao city won a resounding victory in May's elections. Duterte, who begins a six-year term as president, captured attention with promises to cleanse the nation of criminals and government crooks within six months—an audacious pledge that was welcomed by many crime-weary Filipinos, but alarmed human rights watchdogs and the influential Roman Catholic church, the AP reports. Shortly after Duterte's election win, policemen launched an anti-drug crackdown under his name, leaving dozens of drug-dealing suspects dead in gunfights with police or in mysterious circumstances. Days before his swearing in, Duterte was threatening criminals with death if they wouldn't reform. "If you destroy my country, I will kill you," he said during the last flag-raising ceremony he presided as mayor in Davao city this week. The Wall Street Journal reports that Duterte has chosen former Davao police chief Ronald Dela Rosa to head the national police force. Duterte's targets for wiping out crime can be reached and drug suspects "will be given the right to remain silent—forever," Dela Rosa recently told reporters. (Manny Pacquiao won a Senate seat in the same election.)