Filipini, former Duterte leader

Filipin police have arrested former President Rodriga Duterte after issuing an international criminal court (ICC) accusing him of crimes against humanity for his deadly “drug against drugs.”

The 79-year-old was taken to police custody shortly after arriving at the Manila Airport from Hong Kong.

He did not offer any reconnaissance for the brutal action against drugs, in which thousands of people were killed when he was President of the Nation of Southeast Asia from 2016 to 2022, and the mayor of the city was given before.

After his arrest he questioned the basis for the order, asking, “What crime [have] I dedicated myself to? “

Duterte’s former president spokesman Salvador Panelo scored his arrest, calling him “illegal” as the Philippines withdrew from the ICC 2019.

ICC said earlier that he was competent in the Philippines for alleged crimes committed before the country withdrew as a member.

But the activists called the arrest “historical moment” for those who failed in his drug war and their families, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines said.

“The arch of the moral universe is a long one, but today he leaned towards justice. Duterte’s arrest is the beginning of responsibility for mass murders that defined his brutal rule,” said Ichrp chairman Peter Murphy.

Duterte was in Hong Kong to advocate for the upcoming mid -election on May 12, where he planned to run for mayor Davioa.

The shots aired on local television showed him exiting the airport using a reed. Authorities say he is in “good health” and is taken care of by government doctors.

“What is my sin? I have done everything in my time for peace and a peaceful life for the Philippine people,” said the fan multitude of Philippine emigrants before leaving Hong Kong.

The video posted by his daughter Veronica Duterte showed Duterte in custody at the Villamor Manila Air Base. It can be heard in questioning the reason for their arrest.

“What is the law and what is the crime I committed? I brought here, not my willing, it is someone else. Now you have to respond to deprivation of freedom.”

Duterte served as mayor of Davioa, a widespread southern metropolis for 22 years, and made him one of the safest in the country from street crimes.

He saw Dano’s reputation of peace and order and acting as a strenuous politician against aestable to win the 2016 elections.

With a fiery rhetoric, he gathered security forces to shoot at drugs. Police or unknown attackers have abolished more than 6,000 suspects during the campaign, but the right groups say that the number could be higher.

The previous UN report found that most of the victims were young poor urban males and that the police, who did not need search or arrest orders to conduct houses, systematically force the suspect to make self-criminal statements or risk faced with a fatal force.

Critics said the campaign was targeting pushing on the street from urban poor and failed to catch big drugs. Many families also claimed that they were victims – their sons, brothers or husbands – simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Investigations in Parliament pointed to the shady “death team” of hunters to their feet aimed at drug suspects. Duterte denied the allegations of abuse.

“Don’t question my politics because I don’t apologize, without pronunciation. I did what I had to do and whether I believe in it … I did it for my country,” Duterte said in the Parliament investigation in October.

“I hate drugs, don’t make a mistake for that.”

ICC first took into account alleged abuse in 2016 and began an investigation into 2021. She has dressed cases from November 2011, when Duterte was the mayor of Davioa, until March 2019, before the Philippines withdrew with the ICC.

Duterte remains popular in the Philippines because he is the first leader of the Mindanao country, the region south of Manila, where many feel marginalized by the leader in the capital.

He often speaks in Cebuan, a regional language, not a tagalog, who speaks wider in Manila and northern regions.

His populist rhetoric and dull statements earned him Nadinjak “Donald Trump from the East.” He called Russian President Vladimir Putin with his “idol”, and under his administration, Philippines turned their foreign policy to the cinema away from the US, their long-standing ally.

His daughter and political heir to Sara Duterte, Filipina, the current vice president and is intended for the potential presidential candidate in 2028.

In recent months, the Duterte family Alliance with current President Ferdinand Marcos has spectacularly revealed a public gaze, shortly after Marcos and Sara Duterte won the 2022 elections.

Marcos initially refused to cooperate with the ICC investigation, but as his relationship with the Duterte family had worsened, he changed his attitude and later indicated that he would cooperate Filipini.

It is not yet clear whether Marcos will go to the extradition of the former president to judge in The Hague.

Additional reporting of the Simonette Viro in Manila