(Photo courtesy of Anadolu) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte denounced hazing and all forms of physical abuse in initiation rites anew, noting that killing "helpless" neophytes can never be acceptable. "You cannot be more of a man even to yourself if you kill another human being na helpless, hindi naman makaganti (who is helpless, cannot even fight back)," he said in a prerecorded Talk to the People aired Wednesday morning. Recounting his own experience, he said almost all fraternities have a history of deaths due to intense physical punishment. Duterte, a member of Lex Talionis Fraternitas Inc., recalled writing a letter to his fraternity to stop hazing or at least lessen the practice. "We wrote [to] our fraternity to stop this nonsense of inflicting severe pain," he added. He said he personally experienced getting a beating when he joined his frat in San Beda Law School and was hospitalized for three days due to severe hematoma or blood suffusion.
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