Senate Pres. Escudero – Mga pahayag ni FPRRD sa Senado tungkol sa drug war, puwedeng gamitin laban sa kaniya

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00:00A few war on drugs victims' camp studied if they can be used against former President Rodrigo Duterte

00:06based on what he said in the hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee this Tuesday.

00:10The House Quad Committee that is also investigating the drug war

00:14again heard the former president who also attended their hearing.

00:18We have first news from Sandra Aguinaldo.

00:24I can make a confession now if you want.

00:29I have a death squad.

00:33Death squad.

00:35But not the police.

00:38They are also the gangsters.

00:41What I said is this.

00:44Let's be frank.

00:46Encourage the criminals to fight.

00:52Encourage them to draw their guns.

00:56Those statements of former President Rodrigo Duterte in the Senate hearing

01:00cannot be said to be just a joke.

01:02According to Senate President Chiz Escudero,

01:05the former president did not change his words, but what is different now is that

01:10all the words he used were under oath.

01:13They were lied to.

01:14And he said that those were the truth.

01:16To the extent of his knowledge

01:19that they can be used in favor or against him.

01:23I think he is proud of the things he did and said.

01:26He is not ashamed of what he did and said.

01:32That is clear in his statement.

01:34But can Duterte face the cases based on what he said in the Senate?

01:40Escudero said,

01:42Because in the end, you still have to complain.

01:45The party in interest that can complain is the victim's family.

01:51The group of drug war victims' relatives

01:53will discuss a possible legal step.

01:56But they hope that the government will help them.

01:59Maybe the Department of Justice or the NBI can look into it.

02:05They have more power to look into these cases

02:12and give the family the responsibility.

02:17For Senator Coco Pimentel,

02:19Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Drug War Victims,

02:23who wants the lawyers to study what Duterte said under oath.

02:30For Senator Riza Ontiveros,

02:32who is part of the hearing of the Department of Justice

02:36and the investigators of the International Criminal Court,

02:40what the former President said.

02:42In the opinion of one of the lawyers of the war on drugs victims

02:47Is war on drugs in the ICC admissible?

02:49Or can the ICC accept the statements of Duterte in the Senate?

02:53There are only two questions.

02:55Is it relevant? Is it material?

02:57Is it relevant or is it related to the investigation in the ICC?

03:04Yes.

03:05Regarding the war on drugs of Duterte,

03:07is it material? Is it important to face the ICC?

03:12Yes.

03:13Because this is what he said.

03:15ACT-Teachers Partylist Representative Franz Castro

03:19called for the Senate to submit an affidavit

03:21and a recording of the Senate hearing in the ICC.

03:24The Quadcom on camera again denied their invitation

03:28to face former President Duterte in their hearing

03:31at the DOJ in Rawambola

03:33to investigate his statements in the Senate.

03:37These cases could include crimes against humanity

03:41as penalized under Republic Act No. 9851

03:44The Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law

03:50Genocide

03:51and other crimes against humanity

03:54that's the title of the Republic Act

03:58and other criminal laws not to mention the potential jurisdiction of the ICC.

04:03If the DOJ decided that we could turn over the documents, we will do it.

04:08If some Quadcom co-chairs will ask the camera,

04:12they are more favorable if the Philippine courts

04:15will hold Duterte's case.

04:17Well, I have always been true to my statement

04:23since we started the EJK hearings

04:28that I'm not going to allow the ICC to get our documents for that.

04:34It's better if he's just domestically prosecuted.

04:41I'm not in favor of the ICC ever since.

04:43Now, if the DOJ will fail on doing their job on this matter,

04:47then the more the ICC will take cognizance.

04:52So I think it's really up to the DOJ to do their work.

04:56We are asking for the DOJ's permission about this.

04:59This is the first news.

05:01Sandra Aguinaldo for GMA Integrated News.

05:10For more information visit www.gma.gov

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