The Philippines Ex-Leader Duterte arrested the ICC warrant in drug killings

Philippine police arrested President Rodrigo Duterte after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant that accused him of crimes of his deadly “drug war”.

The 79-year-old carried in police custody was short later after his arrival in Manila Airport from Hong Kong.

He did not apologize for his brutal anti-drug crackdown, who saw thousands of people killed in Dance in South East Asia from 2016 to 2022, and Mayor of Davao City before that.

When he arrested, he questioned the warrant’s basis, asking: “What crime (has) have I done?”

Duterte’s former spokesman Salvador Panelad killed the catch, calling it “opposed the Philippines removed from the ICC in 2019.

The ICC first said it has a jurisdiction in the Philippines in alleged crimes committed before a member.

But activists call the arrest of a “historical time” for those who die in his drug wars and their families, the international coalition for Philippine people.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but today, it has bent towards justice. Duterte’s arrest is the beginning of accountability for the mass killings that defined his brutal rule,” said ICHRP chairperson Peter Murphy.

Duterte is in Hong Kong to the next May 12 mid-term elections, where he plans to run for the Mayor of Davao.

The footage that is fed on local television showed him walking from the airport with a tube. Authorities say he is in “good health” and treated with government doctors.

“What is my living room? I do everything my time for peace and a peaceful life for the Filipino people,” he told a cheering Filipino expatriates before leaving Hong Kong.

A video posted by his daughter Veronica Duterte showed Duterte in the custody of a lounge in the Villamor Air based in Manila. Here, he can be heard in questioning the reason for his arrest.

“What is the law and what do I have done wrong? I’m not carried here not my own dispute, it’s the others.” You have to answer today’s liberty. ”

Duterte served as Mayor in Davao, a rising metropolis in the south 22 years and made it one of the safest countries from street crimes.

He parked the reputation of Peace in Davao and rejected himself as a strong conversation anti-established politician to win a landslide.

In the burning rhetoric, he rallied to security forces to kill the drug suspects. More than 6,000 suspects were shot dead by police or unknown murderers during the campaign, but rights groups say the number would be higher.

A previous UN report found that most of the victims were the poor men in the city and the police, who should not seek the places forcing home statements or risk facing lethal force.

Critics say that the campaign is targeted level at street levels from town poor and fails to catch large drug lords. Many families also claim to be victims – their sons, brothers or husbands – just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Parliament investigations focus on a shadow “Death Squad” in many hunters focusing on drug suspects. Duterte rejected allegations of abuse.

“Do not question my policies because I offer no apologies, no excuses. I did what I had to do, and whether or not you believed it … I did it for my country,” Duterte told a parliament investigation in October.

“I hate drugs, no mistakes about it.”

The ICR first found said abuses in 2016 and started its investigation at 2021. It was covered in November 2011, when Duterte was Mayor of Davao, until March, before the Philippines left from the ICC.

Duterte remained popular in the Philippines because he was the first head of the country from Mindanao, a southern Manila region, where the leaders of the capital feels.

He often speaks in Cebuano, the language region, not Tagalog, which is much more – said in Manila and northern regions.

Her population rhetorics and blunt statements earned him a “Donald Trump” moniker. He called the Russian president Vladimir Putin to his “idol” and under his administration, the Philippines’ removed their foreign policy from the US, the long standing of it.

Her daughter and herdacle, Sarah Duterte, was the Philippines today vice-president and referred to as a potential presidential candidate in 2028.

In recent months, the Alliance of the Duterte family Scumbent President Ferdinand Marcos has not been found before the public view, after Marcos the 2022 elections in a landslide.

Marcos first refused to investigate the ICC, but as his relationship with the Duterte family was raised, and later he introduced that the Philippines would cooperate.

It is not clear if Marcos goes as far as the exaggeration of the former president of the Hague trial.

Virma Simonette’s additional report in Manila