Protesters for and against the former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte gathered outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Friday.
Some asked for his release while others called for justice against Duterte, who was arrested on murder charges linked to the deadly “war on drugs” he oversaw while in office.
Some asked for his release while others called for justice against Duterte, who was arrested on murder charges linked to the deadly “war on drugs” he oversaw while in office.
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00:00We have to get out of here.
00:03We have to get out of here.
00:06Duterte! Duterte!
00:09Send him back! Send him back!
00:14Duterte! Duterte!
00:20Duterte! Duterte!
00:28Yes, exactly. We love Tata Ydigong.
00:31We love Tata Ydigong.
00:46We are here to support him in any ways.
00:49And we thought that if we assemble here peacefully,
00:53of course we want the president to be back in the Philippines
00:55because we recognize the fact that we are no longer an ICC member state
01:01and that they don't have jurisdiction to our former president.
01:04Justice! Justice for the victims of Duterte's crimes!
01:08Justice!
01:10We are here to oppose the rotten and corrupt system in the Philippines
01:14that is part of the culture of 81,918 victims of forced evacuations.
01:20During his administration,
01:23it's a very emotional day for all of us, especially for the families.
01:27They are now protesting also back home in the Philippines, fighting for justice.
01:31And we are standing here on behalf of them to make sure that their voices are heard,
01:35especially those who didn't even have a chance to face a court
01:38and were just killed there in the streets and were left there under the Duterte administration.
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