Palace blames Duterte admin for ICC probe, arrest

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Malacañang has pointed to the previous administration as the reason the International Criminal Court (ICC) resumed its investigation into the alleged crimes against humanity during the bloody drug war of former president Rodrigo Duterte that ultimately led to his arrest and surrender last week.  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/3/19/palace-blames-duterte-admin-icc  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00Net 25.

00:02Good afternoon, Usec.

00:04The Duterte supporters are shouting the urge to bring or submit the government to the FPRRD in the ICC

00:16through the Interpol that you are mentioning.

00:20Under this administration, the cases that were brought to the former President,

00:28crimes against humanity, EJK,

00:32can't it be heard here first before it is brought there?

00:39Is this an admittance by our administration or government that there is a problem with our justice system

00:51that's why crimes were not brought here before it was brought to the ICC,

00:56that there is no jurisdiction in the Philippines like what our President Marcos is saying?

01:03No jurisdiction after the withdrawal.

01:07We have to be clear on that, okay?

01:10Now, maybe if there is an issue about not filing a case here in the country

01:17about crimes against humanity,

01:19it's better to ask the previous administration.

01:23Because in November 2021, the government, the administration of the former President Duterte,

01:32and this is recorded,

01:34to stop the investigation of the prosecutor, of the ICC prosecutor,

01:39and because they will conduct an investigation, they will file a case that needs to be filed.

01:44That's November 2021.

01:47Time has passed.

01:49June 2022, President Marcos is still not filing a case.

01:55President Marcos, the ICC prosecutor said that the administration of the former President Duterte did not fulfill the promise,

02:06the undertaking that they will conduct an investigation and file a case.

02:13That's why the investigation of the ICC prosecutor was continued.

02:20Maybe we should ask why the ICC continued,

02:23that is also the former administration because they did not immediately move about these cases

02:29that are being complained about, about the bloody war on drugs.

02:33Yes, that's what I'm pointing out.

02:36If it was not done at the time of the former President Duterte,

02:40our new administration through President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is already here.

02:46When the ICC requested to our government,

02:50did the administration not consider to conduct its own investigation first

02:57before the FPRRD submitted its case to the ICC through Interpol?

03:05Let's go back again.

03:07Shouldn't they have started first?

03:09If the administration of President Marcos should continue its investigation,

03:16it should have started first.

03:18Let's not blame the administration of President Marcos.

03:23One last thing.

03:24The administration has no power to order the investigation of the cases of EJK

03:36and the victims of the war on drugs.

03:41That is why the hearing in the ICC started.

03:44That is where we learned and that is where we found out

03:47what happened at the time of the former President Duterte.

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