Former president Rodrigo Duterte says he is ready for possible arrest, following reports that the International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant on Saturday morning, March 8, but this could not yet be independently verified.
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00:00Former President Rodrigo Duterte says he is ready for possible arrest.
00:05This following reports that the International Criminal Court
00:08had issued an arrest warrant on Saturday morning, March 8,
00:11but this could not yet be independently verified.
00:14Duterte says, quote,
00:15If this is truly my fate in life, it's okay, I will accept it.
00:19They can arrest me, imprison me.
00:21During a congressional hearing last year,
00:23Duterte said he was not afraid of the ICC
00:26and told it to hurry up in its investigation.
00:29Duterte withdrew the Philippines from ICC's founding treaty in 2019
00:33after it began investigating claims of widespread extrajudicial killings.
00:37The former president is in Hong Kong to speak at a campaign rally
00:40for the Partido Democrático Filipino with thousands of overseas Filipino workers.
00:45Senator Bongo attended the event,
00:47while Senator Bato de la Rosa delivered his message through video.