Sara Duterte calls out AFP for ‘standing idly’ during ex-president’s arrest

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Vice President Sara Duterte lambasted the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday, March 20, for allowing the arrest of her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, on the basis of a foreign tribunal warrant.  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/3/20/sara-duterte-calls-out-afp-for-standing-idly-during-ex-president-s-arrest  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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00:00To this end, this government will not assist the ICC in any way, shape or form.

00:10So if the government itself has declared non-cooperation with the ICC, why did the PNP violate this

00:18very policy and enforce a foreign warrant?

00:22Even granting for the sake of argument that we have some duty to cooperate with either

00:26the ICC or Interpol, does that duty override the fundamental rights of every Filipino enshrined

00:33in our Constitution?

00:36What happened on March 11, 2025 is not just about one man.

00:42It is about all of us.

00:44It is about the country.

00:46If a former president can be taken without due process, what stops them from doing the

00:50same to any other Filipino?

00:53We must dare to ask more questions.

00:56Under whose authority did the PNP act?

00:59Why didn't it enforce a foreign warrant without the Philippine court order?

01:04Why didn't they at least bring PRRD before a judge, as required by the Rome Statute itself?

01:12Even more disturbing is the silence of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

01:18Why did the AFP stand idly by while a former commander-in-chief was taken from a military

01:24base under questionable circumstances?

01:28How could they allow a foreign tribunal to override on our constitutional guarantees?

01:36We have now lost a former president.

01:39I pray that we do not lose the country next.

01:43Ang tanong ngayon, ano ang gagawin natin para maibalik ang dating pangulo sa Pilipinas?

01:52Kasi nag-iisa ako ngayon dito na gumagawa ng paraan para maibalik ang ating dating pangulo

02:01sa ating bayan.

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