Vice President Sara Duterte –INQUIRER PHOTO/LYN RILLON
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday referred to as “state kidnapping” former President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest.
“It’s some kind of, I don’t know, what you name ‘state kidnapping’,” she mentioned in an ambush interview in Villamor Air Base in Pasay Metropolis.
The Vice President went to the air base however was barred from getting into to go to her father who was detained inside.
Former President Duterte was earlier arrested on the Ninoy Aquino Terminal 3 and was then transferred to the Philippine Air Power headquarters in Villamor Air Base.
He’s now on his method to The Hague by way of a chartered aircraft that took off Tuesday evening.
READ: Duterte boards chartered flight to The Hague
The previous president is the topic of an arrest warrant issued by the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) over crimes in opposition to humanity.
Duterte was thought to be the chief architect of the bloody drug conflict waged throughout his time because the nation’s Chief Govt from 2016 to 2022 and as mayor of Davao Metropolis (2013-2016, 2001-2010, and 1988-1998).
Throughout his time period as president, the drug conflict claimed not less than 6,000 lives, based on official authorities information. However human rights watchdogs and the ICC itself estimated the loss of life toll to be between 12,000 and 30,000 from 2016 to 2019 alone, as they famous that a number of of those are as a result of extrajudicial killings.
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