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00:00Following the controversial statements in the Senate of the former President Rodrigo Duterte,
00:06can he really face the case?
00:08We asked some legal experts about it.
00:12His former Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, Joseph Moro, defended it.
00:22I can make the confession now, if you want.
00:27First of all, it really happened.
00:32I have a death squad.
00:35If the statements of the former President Rodrigo Duterte are not enough evidence to convict him,
00:42according to Atty. Michael Chu of the UP College of Law and head of the International Criminal Law Program,
00:47He can be murdered.
00:48If you can find actually a victim, a body,
00:52and you can link that body to that death squad,
00:56and you can link the death squad to the former President,
01:00and you can prove that he in fact had constituted a death squad,
01:06then yes.
01:07But you need to show a lot of evidence.
01:11But according to the former Integrated Bar of the Philippines, President Domingo Cayosa,
01:15the PNP itself is the suspect here.
01:17Because if the lieutenant will say,
01:20it was an order from the captain,
01:22the captain said,
01:23that order came from the general,
01:25the general said,
01:26it came from the President,
01:27then it reached him.
01:28You have to connect it to particular killings.
01:31It's not that difficult.
01:35Actually, the PNP knows who the killers are, right?
01:39The PNP knows, actually,
01:41based on their records,
01:42if it's a legitimate non-fighting,
01:45or if it's just a wrap-out.
01:47They can do it if they want to.
01:49The former President is also saying that
01:52the 20-year prescriptive period of murder cases
01:55or the time for the case to be filed in court
01:57is not a crime.
01:59And who are those seven members of your death squad?
02:02To fight crime.
02:03They all look like they're dead.
02:05It's okay, sir. What are their names?
02:08You know, when I was mayor in 1943,
02:13I am now 73.
02:16For the life of me,
02:18I cannot remember the name.
02:21But according to Atty. Chu,
02:23this is enough for the complaint of violating
02:25the Republic Act 9851
02:27or the local version of the Crimes Against Humanity.
02:30He said that Duterte can get a perjury
02:32if he repays what he said
02:34that he first swore.
02:36He made an oath.
02:37So, you shouldn't joke in a Senate hearing.
02:42If it's a press conference,
02:44it's possible that you'll get a perjury.
02:46But according to Atty. Salvador Panelo,
02:48the former chief presidential legal counsel
02:50of the Duterte administration,
02:51the former president didn't admit anything.
02:54He just looked at me and said,
02:55I have a death squad.
02:58I mean, I have admission.
03:00He didn't listen to what I said.
03:02He said, those criminals are killing people.
03:05So, in that sense,
03:06he has a death squad
03:07because instead of the police
03:10killing them,
03:11they're the ones killing themselves.
03:13So, if you have a death squad,
03:14that's my death squad.
03:16Seven members.
03:17They're businessmen.
03:19That is not my creation.
03:21That is the result
03:23of them fighting each other.
03:25Panelo also said
03:26that the agencies of the government
03:28shouldn't help the International Criminal Court.
03:30The former president, Bong Marcos,
03:32said that the government of the Philippines
03:34should help the investigation of the ICC
03:37because the Philippines doesn't recognize
03:39its jurisdiction.
03:40We have repeatedly said
03:42the ICC has no jurisdiction.
03:44They can use it or not.
03:46They don't have a jurisdiction.
03:48The ICC is a nonsense, useless entity.
03:52The former senator, Antonio Trillanes IV,
03:55said that the transcripts of the hearings
03:57of the Senate and House
03:59regarding the war on drugs
04:00were transmitted to the ICC.
04:01First of all,
04:02the allegations that they brought to the committee
04:07were either hearsay,
04:09or lies,
04:11or propaganda.
04:12None of that.
04:14The lead chair of House Quadcom,
04:16Congressman Robert Ace Barbers,
04:18said that they will not give
04:20certifications to the so-called transcripts
04:22because they have nothing to do
04:24with the investigation of the ICC.
04:26According to the ICC Office of the Prosecutor,
04:28they will monitor the situation in the Philippines.
04:31They say that their investigation
04:33includes information
04:35from international partners,
04:37civil society,
04:38and open source information
04:40or information that is open to the public
04:42and does not require a special permission
04:44to use.
04:45For GMA Integrated News,
04:47I'm Joseph Morong.
04:48Good luck.
04:58For GMA Integrated News, I'm Joseph Morong.