Philippines ex-leader Duterte arrested on ICC warrant over drug killings

The Philippine Police arrested former President Rodrigo Terte after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accused of a crime against humanity against his deadly “war with drugs.”

The 79 -year -old boy was put into the police shortly after arriving at Manila Airport in Hong Kong.

He did not apologize for the crackdown on brutal anti -drugs, and thousands of people were killed when he was the president of Southeast Asia from 2016 to 2022, and before that, the mayor of Davao City.

When he was arrested, he questioned the basics of the warrant and asked: [have] Did I commit? “

Former President Salvador Panelo, a spokesman for Duterte, criticized the arrest as “illegal” as the Philippines withdrew from ICC in 2019.

The ICC said in the Philippines that the state had jurisdiction over the crime committed before the state withdraws as a member.

But the activists called the arrest a “historical moment” for the drug war and those who destroyed them. The Ichrp of the Philippines said.

Peter Murphy, chairman of ICRP, said, “The arc of moral universe is long, but today it is bent in justice. Durterte’s arrest is the beginning of a responsibility for mass murder defining his cruel rules.

Duterte was in Hong Kong for the mid -May 12 elections and planned to run again for the Davao market.

The video aired on the local television showed me going out of the airport using a cane. The authorities say they are in “good health” and are caring for by government doctors.

“What is my sin? I did everything in every time for peace and peaceful life for the Filipinos.”

The video posted by his daughter Veronica Duterte showed that he detained Durte in the lounge of the Villa Mor Air Force Base in Manila. In that, he can question the reason for arrest.

“What is the law and what’s the crime I have done? I brought it here, not my own will. It is another person. You must answer for the deprivation of freedom.”

The arrest of Duterte is the Philippine political scientist Richard Heydarian, “the beginning of a new chapter in Philippine history.”

“This is about the rule of law and human rights,” he said.

Hey Larian added that the authorities immediately arrested Durterte at the airport and immediately arrested them in the local court instead of going through the process “to avoid political confusion.”

“Durterte’s supporters wanted to go fiercely in relation to public assembly. [use] All kinds of delayed tactics … [to] “I continue to work until the arrest warrant loses my driving force,” he said.

Heydarian said that the demand for the definition of Duterte’s drug war is “in hand,” with his successor’s political interests and the political interests of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

The two terte and the Marcos family formed a strong alliance in the last election in 2022. In response to the wishes of Elder Terte, his daughter, Sarah, ran as vice president of Marcos JR instead of finding his father’s position.

In recent months, the relationship has been revealed in recent months as the two families pursue a separate political agenda.

Marcos first refused to cooperate with ICC, but pointed out that his relationship with the Durterte family changed his position and later pointed out that the Philippines would later cooperate.

It is not yet clear whether Marcos will go to the former president to be trial in the Hague.

Duterte has served as the market of Davao, a southern metropolitan city for 22 years and has been one of the safest countries in street crime.

He used the city’s peace and spell reputation to cast himself as a semi -established politician who talks hard to win the 2016 election as a landslide.

He was a fire -like investigation, and he died of a drug suspect by collecting security troops. During the campaign, more than 6,000 suspects were shot by the police or unknown perpetrators, but the rights group says the number may be higher.

According to the previous United Nations report, most victims are police officers who do not need search or arrest warrants for young and poor urban men and police to carry out housing air raids, and the suspect has forced the risk of systematically faced with self -crime or deadly power.

Critics said the campaign was aimed at the distance -level pusher and could not catch a large drug monarch. Many families also insisted that their sons, brothers or husbands (sons, brothers, or husbands) were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The parliamentary investigation pointed out the shadow “Death Squad” of the bounty hunter for drug suspects. Duterte denied abuse.

Duterte spoke to parliamentary investigation in October.

“I hate drugs and don’t make a mistake.”

ICC first paid attention to the abuse in 2016 and started investigating in 2021. From November 2011 to March 2019, when Duterte was the Davao market, the Philippines dealt with the ICC.

Since its power, Marcos has reduced its anti -nacotic campaign and has promised a less violent approach to drug problems.

Duterte is the first leader from Mindanao, south of Manila in the Philippines, and is popular with many people who are alienated by the leaders of the capital.

He often speaks in Cebuano, a local language, not Tagalog, which is more widely used in Manila and the northern regions.

According to the Social WeatherStations Research Institute, when resigned in 2022, 10 Filipinos were satisfied with their results as president since the recovery of democracy in 1986.

His populist investigation and dull statement gained him “Donald Trump in the East.” He called Russian President Vladimir Putin as his “idol”, and under his administration, the Philippines turned to China far from the United States.

Marcos restored Manila’s relationship with Manila because the Philippines is in conflict with China, and the DutterTe government accuses the government as “China tribe.”

China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that “we are closely monitoring the development of the situation,” and ICC warned of “politics” and “double standard” in the arrest of two tertees.

Ducerte ‘s Sarah Duterte, a daughter and political inheritance, was tilted as a potential presidential candidate in 2028. The incumbent Marcos banned the pursuit of re -election by the Constitution.

Additional report of Virma Simonette in Manila and Kelly NG in Singapore