15/03/2025
Repost from Chriatine Cunanan:
In case you have not read the actual ICC report, someone has summarized it online. Feel free to share with others on a copy/ paste:
Since I canât sleep anyway, I just read the 15-page ICC Warrant of Arrest for Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
For years, weâve been hearing about âDuterteâs mass killingsâ 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?
Itâs embarrassing how weak and sloppy it is.
My dangerously intelligent friend Sass had already pointed out some of the inconsistenciesâand they only confirm how politically motivated this entire thing will be when it plays out in the international court.
1 - The Alleged Crimes â This is it? This is âcrimes against humanityâ?!
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).
Thatâs a total of 43 deaths over nearly a decade.
This is what theyâre calling âcrimes against humanityâ? 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 hereâs where it gets even funnier.
The media, human rights groups, and anti-Duterte crowd have spent years throwing around random numbersâ6,000, 30,000, 50,000âshouting about âmass EJKs.â
And yet, NONE of these numbers appear in the ICC warrant.
So why havenât 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? Itâs all propaganda parroted by those who just hate Duterte but have absolutely no clue of what theyâre talking about.
2 - âIndirect Co-Perpetratorâ â Wait, so heâs not even the mastermind?
The warrant claims that there are âreasonable groundsâ to believe Duterte was an âindirect co-perpetrator.â
Not the leader.
Not the mastermind.
Not even directly involved.
Basically, the ICC is saying: âWe donât have proof he gave the orders, but weâll charge him anyway.â
So they spent years making Duterte the âface of EJKs,â and now that theyâre actually filing a case, they canât even name him as the direct perpetrator?
3 - The âLambada Boysâ Mess â Can they even get their own story straight?
The warrant claims that in 1998, Duterte created the âLambada Boysâ, 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.
Waitâso was it created in 1998 or in the early 1990s?
Imagine writing a 15-page document and contradicting yourself within two sentences. Youâd 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 Duterteâs critics spent years hyping up mass killings, only for the actual case to be about allegedly 43 deaths over 8 yearsâa number so small, they donât 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.
