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00:00Former President Rodrigo Duterte is not afraid to face accusations related to the war on drugs of his administration.
00:08He will answer the accusations in court, not in the camera.
00:12Jonathan Andal has the first news.
00:17Former President Rodrigo Duterte is not afraid to face accusations related to the war on drugs of his administration.
00:24According to his former presidential spokesman, Duterte is not afraid to face accusations related to the war on drugs of his administration, but in court and not in the house investigation.
00:34Duterte is advocating his right against self-incrimination.
00:38Senator Bato De La Rosa is with the House Committee on Human Rights.
00:42As the PNP chief, De La Rosa was the one who carried out the war on drugs where thousands of people were killed.
00:48But according to the senator, he will not attend.
00:51According to the advice of Senate President Chief Escudero.
00:54I will attend, but I don't want to become the president of violating the inter-parliamentary courtesy.
01:04So I'm following the guidance of our Senate President.
01:09That's his answer to me.
01:11You shouldn't go there on the grounds of inter-parliamentary or inter-chamber courtesy.
01:18But in a statement, Escudero said that he told De La Rosa that he will support whatever decision this is.
01:26But De La Rosa did not attend the hearing.
01:29Escudero will write to the chairman of the Committee on Human Rights in the House of Representatives, Congressman Benny Abante,
01:34to say that Senator De La Rosa should attend the hearing of the EJK in the House of Representatives.
01:39Abante said that Bato should not be afraid because he will attend the hearing.
01:43He will not be investigated as a senator, but as a former chief of the PNP.
01:46We are not actually pointing an accusing finger on him.
01:51There are some things that he needs to hear the victims.
01:57And there are things that he must clear himself.
02:01Former Solicitor General Jose Calida and former chiefs of the NBI, PNP, and PNP-IAS did not attend the hearing.
02:08That's why the committee will issue a show-cause order for them.
02:11The chairman of the House Committee on Human Rights scolded the police for taking pictures of the EJK victims.
02:18I am prohibiting any police officer to take pictures of these victims.
02:24Respect this committee.
02:27I do not want anyone to take pictures of anybody if you are not a member of the media.
02:33The police who operated on the drug suspects in Piatas, Quezon City, where three people were killed, were also on the scene.
02:40Because they did not know the protocol of the EJK that they carried out.
02:44What is the protocol of the EJK?
02:50Which is differentiated from the EJK Double Barrel?
02:55At that time, we just followed the orders of the higher-ups.
03:00You just follow the orders of the higher-ups that you do not know why.
03:07Agaraw made a mistake in his words.
03:11But he knows that because he is a good person.
03:14It also came out in the hearing that a police officer did not kill more than 6,000 drug suspects who were killed in police operations in the drug war.
03:24The PNP said that the relatives of the victims are approaching the NBI because they do not trust the police.
03:31The relatives of the EJK victims also faced the committee.
03:35Some of them will approach the ICC or International Criminal Court to answer the police who killed their relatives.
03:43This is the first news. Jonathan Andal for GMA Integrated News.
03:53For those abroad, stay tuned to GMA Pinoy TV and www.gminews.tv.