New Philippine U.N. Ambassador 'Invoking Nazis on Twitter'

October 3, 2016 9:58 PM EDT

A Twitter feed apparently run by the Philippines’ newly appointed ambassador to the U.N., Teddy Locsin Jr., contains several Nazi references made in support of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs.

The recent Nazi-themed comments, which are now resurfacing in Philippine media, are similar to those made by Duterte last week. (The account they are made from is not verified by Twitter but a Twitter account with the same name is regularly cited in Philippine media as belonging to Locsin.)

He actually decried comparisons to Hitler in the same speech he likened his FINAL SOLUTION for druggists to Hitler's for Jews?
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) October 1, 2016

Locsin, a former legislator and TV host who claims to be of partly Jewish descent, appears to defend Nazis in several tweets.

True, a horror but they fixed broken Germany to repeat aggression ten times stronger. So they knew something more than killing Jews.
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) September 30, 2016

I was explaining not defending. And learning. Our country invited Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic chief, to advise us after War.
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) September 30, 2016

It got us best Central Bank—anti-inflation, anti-foreign debt; then Marcos abolished debt limits. Nazis hated inflation.
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) October 1, 2016

If the Nazis were all wrong, how would Israel—abandoned by France, US, UK—have beat back 5 armies by blitzkrieg.
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) October 3, 2016

The Twitter account also features tweets directed at media and alluding to Nazi Germany or the Holocaust.

@VictoriaLIVE @BBCNews So the Nazis were right after all. C'mon, just say it because anyway, Europe will do it.
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) March 7, 2016

@HuffPostCrime The Nazis will tell you need to organize these things on a large scale: try concentration camps.
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) July 11, 2015

The office of the Philippine delegation to the U.N. did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment from TIME.

President Duterte’s brutal war on drugs, which amounts to little more than state-sanctioned extrajudicial killing, has seen more than 3,000 deaths since he took office in June. On Friday, Duterte said, “Hitler massacred 3 million Jews. Now, there are 3 million drug addicts … I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

— With reporting by Yenni Kwok

The New Philippine Ambassador to the U.N. Teddy Locsin Jr. Appears to Be Invoking Nazis on Twitter

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