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  • 3/31/2025
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Transcript
00:00Vice President Sara Duterte is questioning a lot of evidence in her case against former President Rodrigo Duterte in the International Criminal Court or ICC.
00:09These are not enough to prove the case of Crimes Against Humanity.
00:14EJK Victims' lawyer is challenging the vice president regarding this.
00:19Live from Dihe, we have first reporter with us, Maris Umali. Maris.
00:24Egan, good morning. It's already midday here in Dihe, Netherlands.
00:32The case of former President Rodrigo Duterte is no longer in our hands.
00:36The first evidence submitted by the prosecution in the International Criminal Court against him is up to 181.
00:44This is far from the so-called Crimes Against Humanity.
00:48However, the International Criminal Court has already said that even one case is enough to prove the crime against humanity.
00:58Even in the April deadline of the prosecution in submitting the evidence in the ICC,
01:06they have already reduced the number of evidence in the 181 in the pre-trial chamber 1 last week.
01:13The field of Duterte is no longer in our hands.
01:15Vice President Sara Duterte points out, can the 181 pieces of evidence prove that his father,
01:23Libo Libo, was killed in the war on drugs under his administration?
01:30181 pieces of evidence and they are saying Libo Libo.
01:35This is a case of Crimes Against Humanity.
01:40So if you only have 181 pieces of evidence, does that show a crime against humanity?
01:51So where are the 30,000 pieces of evidence?
01:56This is not a case for the ICC.
02:01These were not even cases in the Philippines.
02:11But the International Criminal Court is saying something else.
02:18The legal framework is that a crime against humanity can be a murder, can be another number of criminal conducts,
02:28but if they are committed in the context of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population according to a certain plan.
02:37So if there is a plan that involves a widespread or systematic recurrent attack against civilian population,
02:44even one murder may be considered a crime against humanity.
02:48So how can you prove systematic killing of 30,000 victims if you do not have the names of 30,000 victims?
03:01This is 43 counts of murder, not even 50.
03:06So where is the system there of killing thousands?
03:12No, you don't, no, sorry.
03:16Their lawyer is stupid.
03:18I invited VP Sara to come and face the ICC and say her argument.
03:25Let's see if she listens.
03:28In our studies, VP Sara is also a lawyer.
03:32In our studies, this crime is not a crime like or you can't compare it to a simple murder case.
03:41I understand that under Philippine jurisdiction, in crimes against humanity, you do not need to name all the victims.
03:52According to Vice President Sara, she is already considering the interim release of her camp.
03:57She will continue to form a defense team for her father.
04:00But in the end, former President Duterte Rao will make a decision according to his lawyers.
04:08We are waiting for the papers of two more lawyers.
04:20And then we're currently recruiting one more lawyer.
04:26Excluding the Filipino lawyer.
04:56That's our country.

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