Duterte's imprisonment kindles hope for justice
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was arrested last week by the International Criminal Court. That makes him the ICC's highest-profile prisoner ever. While in office, he spearheaded a so-called "war on drugs" that killed up to 30,000 people. The relatives of the victims are now ready to face Duterte in court. Also, a look at the end of the ceasefire in Gaza and renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas. And, Namibia is inaugurating its first female president this week.
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| 0:00.0 | The former president of the Philippines earned a nickname, The Punisher. |
| 0:08.8 | His approach for suspected drug dealers was brutal. |
| 0:12.4 | For every death, there would be a value and money would be given to the one who put the |
| 0:18.7 | trigger. |
| 0:19.7 | Now, Rodrigo Duterte is locked up, awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Marco Wurman, Moore on Duterte's arrest, and the International Olympic Committee's new president. |
| 0:30.4 | Mrs. Kirstie Coventry. |
| 0:33.8 | She's breaking many barriers. |
| 0:36.2 | Also, an update on the new Israeli military offensive in Gaza, |
| 0:39.7 | and everyone remembers where they were five years ago when the pandemic began. |
| 0:44.5 | News comes out about COVID. Everybody leaves. I'm the only person left in a four-story guest |
| 0:50.0 | house. All those stories and more. today, here on the world. |
| 1:02.5 | This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for tuning into us today. We begin in the Hague where 79-year-old Rodrigo Duterte is confined to a drab prison cell. From 2016 to |
| 1:08.8 | 2022, Duterte was the president of the Philippines. He seemed |
| 1:12.9 | invincible. But last week, he was arrested on a warrant issued by the International Criminal |
| 1:17.7 | Court for carrying out a so-called war on drugs that killed by some estimates up to 30,000 |
| 1:23.5 | people. The World's Patrick Gwynne reports that victims' relatives are now ready to face |
| 1:28.1 | Duterte in court. It's hard to single out the most outrageous thing Rodrigo Duterte ever said |
| 1:34.9 | into a microphone. But this is up there. My campaign against drug will not stop until the last |
| 1:44.0 | pusher and the last drug lord are a bloody purge of meth users and dealers |
| 1:54.5 | this was his core campaign promise and to many Filipinos fed up with disorder it sounded good good. Some thought, sure, he's vulgar, |
| 2:03.3 | and you can't take him literally, but maybe the Philippines needs a leader who's tough. |
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