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Former Philippine president Duterte arrested on ICC warrant over crimes against humanity (www.lemonde.fr)

submitted 2 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/news@beehaw.org

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Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday, March 11, in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant citing crimes against humanity tied to his deadly war on drugs.

The 79-year-old faces a charge of "the crime against humanity of murder," according to the ICC, for a crackdown in which rights groups estimate tens of thousands of mostly poor men were killed by officers and vigilantes, often without proof they were linked to drugs.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Good

Fuck Duterte. He did to his country almost a decade ago what Trump is doing to the USA now. I remember this Philippine-American journalist saying in 2016 that

we (the Philippines) are the test bed for things they don't dare do in "the West" yet.

Isn't his daughter president president now? No doubt that's better, but by how much I wonder.

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That daughter is the current vice president (who ran together on the same ticket as the current president: another dictator's offspring). Seems like the daughter would be gunning for the presidency the next election (since presidents in the Philippines are only allowed one term) and is now have been waging a word war against the current president and their camp.

Anyways, the fear is that this arrest will be used for pity points amongst Duterte's base. Filipinos in general love dramatics and the underdog. They will milk this arrest for all its worth, painting the elder Duterte as being oppressed, at the behest of "foreign interests" and agitating the base.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Familiar playbook.

Thanks for the update-in-a-nutshell!

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IIRC the Philippines was also the testbed for the facebook-cambridge analytica thing.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

This or some other company, that's essentially what Maria Ressa said (with proof).

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like that journalist was Maria Ressa. She was on Jon Steward's podcast recently and talked about the same thing.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Maria Ressa

Yes! Thanks, I couldn't remember. Was an amazing podcast series on PBS iirc.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Make no mistake, Bongbong Marcos is just as bad, if not worse than Duerte.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t mind cooperating with ICC even if it is for wrong reasons.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago

😶