14/03/2025
Patricia Madison wrote:
“For years, we’ve been hearing about “Duterte’s mass killings” and how his distractors and the ICC is coming for him with a strong case. Given all the noise, I decided to read it myself. My findings?
It’s embarrassing how weak and sloppy it is.
BASIS FOR ICC ARREST
1 ) The Alleged Crimes
This is it? This is ‘crimes against humanity’?!
The warrant claims that:
* At least 19 people (allegedly drug pushers or thieves) were killed by the Davao Death Squad in different locations.
* At least 24 other people (allegedly criminals, drug pushers, or users) were killed from 2011 to 2018 (8 years).
That’s a total of 43 deaths over nearly a decade.
This is what they’re calling ‘crimes against humanity’? The Ampatuan Massacre had 58 deaths in one day, and our very own Philippine courts handled it.
Meanwhile, actual genocides and mass executions happen worldwide, and the ICC conveniently looks the other way.
But here’s where it gets even funnier.
The media, human rights groups, and anti-Duterte crowd have spent years throwing around random numbers—6,000, 30,000, 50,000—shouting about “mass EJKs.”
And yet, NONE of these numbers appear in the ICC warrant.
So why haven’t they been parading the actual case details? Because it COMPLETELY DESTROYS THEIR ANTI-DUTERTE NARRATIVE.
What then exactly have his critics been screaming about all these years? It’s all propaganda parroted by those who just hate Duterte but have absolutely no clue of what they’re talking about.
2 ) “Indirect Co-Perpetrator”
Wait, so he’s not even the mastermind?
The warrant claims that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Duterte was an “indirect co-perpetrator.”
Not the leader.
Not the mastermind.
Not even directly involved.
Basically, the ICC is saying: “We don’t have proof he gave the orders, but we’ll charge him anyway.”
So they spent years making Duterte the “face of EJKs,” and now that they’re actually filing a case, they can’t even name him as the direct perpetrator?
3) The ‘Lambada Boys’ Mess
Can they even get their own story straight?
The warrant claims that in 1998, Duterte created the ‘Lambada Boys’, a so-called death squad made up of police officers and hitmen tasked with killing criminals. Then, in the very next sentence, it says that in the early 1990s, the Lambada Boys were renamed as the Davao Death Squad.
Wait—so was it created in 1998 or in the early 1990s?
Imagine writing a 15-page document and contradicting yourself within two sentences. You’d think an international court would at least proofread its own case, but here we are.
This is a poorly written political fan fiction, not an arrest warrant.
The ICC, the anti-Dutertes, the media, and human rights groups just embarrassed themselves.
The entire case is a joke. The media and Duterte’s critics spent years hyping up mass killings, only for the actual case to be about allegedly 43 deaths over 8 years—a number so small, they don’t even want to talk about it.
If this is the best they can do, no wonder Duterte was oddly chill throughout this entire ordeal.
The world is now his audience, and the ICC just set the stage for him to tear apart their weak case on the global stage.
Let the man speak. Let the world listen. And let the cards fall where they may.”
