House human rights committee chairperson Bienvenido Abante says former president Rodrigo Duterte’s unapologetic admissions before the Senate about his role in drug war-related deaths make him liable for crimes against humanity.
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00:00House Human Rights Committee Chairperson Bienvenido Abante says former President Rodrigo Duterte's
00:05unapologetic admissions before the Senate about his role in drug war-related deaths
00:10make him liable for crimes against humanity.
00:12We also saw how the former president was given a platform to rewrite history, to gaslight
00:20the nation by justifying acts that led to the thousands of deaths.
00:26This a day after Duterte told the Senate he ordered cops to encourage suspects to fight
00:30back so police could kill them, and that he had his own personal death squad.
00:34Abante also denounces the, quote, shocking normalization of brutality during Monday's
00:38Senate inquiry, where Duterte said he offers no apologies, no excuses for the extrajudicial
00:43killings that hounded his term.
00:46Abante's remarks highlight the House of Representatives' changed attitude towards Duterte, even though
00:50lawmakers allied with the Marcos administration continue to publicly ignore the International
00:54Criminal Court in favor of local prosecution.