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> Mr. Duterte was always clear about his intent. He said, over and over, often to applause, that anyone who resisted arrest on suspicion of selling or using drugs would be killed. They were drug addicts, he said, and addicts are “sick with paranoia” and “are always armed.” Killing them is not murder, only justice, he said. He encouraged the public to take part in the killings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/opinion/duterte-icc-drugs-victims.html
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Opinion | Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims

In Duterte’s Philippines, due process was not a right, it was a privilege that was not extended to the victims of his drug war.

The New York Times
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> I’ve been reporting since 2016 on the people killed during Mr. Duterte’s war on drugs. Their bodies were found floating in rivers, inside garbage bags on street corners, and where they fell in kitchens, alleyways and next to railroad tracks.
> Mr. Duterte had seemed above the law.

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> His daughter, Sara, is now the vice president, having formed a unity ticket with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. They won elections in 2022 by a landslide. Mr. Duterte might still be free if not for a bitter falling-out between the two family dynasties. Mr. Marcos had previously said his government would not cooperate with the International Criminal Court and allowed the arrest only after their political alliance crumbled.
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> When the families of the dead heard of his arrest, they danced with pictures of their lost loved ones, pounded on walls, hugged family and knelt in pews to pray...
> There is Normita, whose epileptic son was killed. She is distraught because she swore that if Mr. Duterte were arrested she would visit his cell every day to make certain he remained behind bars. “How do I even get to the Netherlands?” she asked, sobbing....

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