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in the Philippines a bitter feud between
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the country's president and his Deputy
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is gripping the
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country this country is going to Wi
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because we are L by a
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person who doesn't know how to be a
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president we is a
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liar with plot twists worthy of a house
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of cards episode the vice president has
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revealed she's talked to a Hitman about
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killing the nation's leader
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BM C Lisa Araneta that's Martin randz no
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joke no
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joke Ferdinand Marcus Jr and Sarah
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duerte began as the Dream Team a
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surprising Union of the nation's most
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powerful political dynasties who
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together won a landslide
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Victory he's from the infamous Marcus
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family son of the late dictator
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Ferdinand Marcus
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Senor she's the daughter of Rodrigo
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duterte the man responsible for the
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bloody drug war that killed thousands of
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Filipinos right now the detas are backed
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into a corner last week the
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international criminal court ordered the
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arrest of the former president for
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crimes against
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humanity during your brother's waren
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drugs thousands of Filipinos died it was
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all black propaganda there is no such
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thing there that never
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happened he's now at the he awaiting
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trial this could spell the end of their
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Dynasty and a major victory for the
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marcoses I called it the Game of Thrones
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miniseries Philippine
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version even by the torrid standards of
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politics here this is spectacular the
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terst claim they've been double crossed
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and that the president is a drug addict
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the vice president has been accused of
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corruption and is on the verge of being
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ousted but what this Feud has exposed is
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the dark reality of power hungry
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political dynasties that operate across
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the entire country
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it's noon in Manila and it's the final
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sitting day of the House of
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Representatives before the midterm
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election campaign starts behind the
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scenes a plot for political revenge is
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in
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motion we've been told that protesters
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are heading to Congress to push for the
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impeachment of the vice president so
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we're heading there now to see what's
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going on
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s vice president Sarah duterte has been
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accused of corruption violating the
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Constitution and plotting to assassinate
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the president these protesters are
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trying to gather support from
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politicians to have her
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removed publicly president Marcus Jr has
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not supported calls for impeachment but
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word on the street is he's given
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Congress the go-ahead
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one power player in the Marcus Camp
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helping orchestrate this impeachment bid
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house Speaker Martin ramaldes the
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president's first
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cousin he was also in Sarah duera
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assassination
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threat any minute now the congressman
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behind me will officially decide whether
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to impeach the vice president one of the
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people really pushing for it is
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Congressman Sandro Marcos the son of the
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president
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impeachment complaint filed against vice
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president sari duterte having been filed
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by more than one-third of the membership
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of the house or a total of 215 members
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is there any objection the chair hears
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none the motion is approved
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we've just witnessed a historic moment
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vice president Sarah deera has just been
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impeached by the House of
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Representatives she is the first vice
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president ever to get impeached and will
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now face trial in the Senate if
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convicted she'll be removed from her
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post and barred from public office
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Ronald Lamas a veteran political analyst
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has been here watching it all unfold how
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much of this is related to the feud with
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the president they might have realized
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that if the does survive the midterms
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then the the theist will have momentum
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going into 2028 but what I'm hearing is
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it's all about these families just
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wanting to stay in power of course
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to understand how these dynasties work
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you need to come to their power
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bases this is El Loos Norte in the
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country's North home of the Marcus Clan
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it's hard to miss that we're in Marcus
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land the governor of the province is the
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nephew of the president the vice
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governor also a Marcos the president's
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sister is running for Senator and here's
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his photo right next to his son who's a
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congressman it's the first day of the
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midterm election campaign the president
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is here to launch his senatorial slate
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in front of his home
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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crowd rales Marcos Jr
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Marcus Jr Comes Out Swinging taking aim
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at the duas
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inocos Norte the Marcus are counting on
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a loyal voter base to back their
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National candidates and keep the family
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in power
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here Vice Governor Cecilia Araneta
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Marcos the president's cousin is running
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for the province's top post she is
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likely to
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win aside from being a Marcos what are
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your qualifications for Governor
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for
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governor uh well I believe uh I have a
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heart I have a heart for the people I
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think that's the basic uh qualification
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the Marcus have long been a political
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Dynasty in the region do you think it's
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fair that it's always a Marcos governing
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elos um it's just that I believe that
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Demarcus has do a good job do a good job
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in in bringing progress into Ilocos
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North and to the region the local and
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national elections are obviously
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happening in May amid a feud between
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your family and the
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duas what do you think about the feud
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I'm I'm a bit disappointed because they
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all started so well they all started so
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well with
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s you know but um the duter seem to have
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other other thoughts or other
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lands the Marcus family's Legacy is
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complicated I
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hereby
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Proclaim ferdinan e Marcos as the dly
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elected
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president during his rule the Marcus
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lived a lavish lifestyle Rife with
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corruption his wife Elda was Infamous
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for her 3,000 pairs of shoes
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I'm heading to a holiday home built for
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Marcus Senor and amelda using ill-gotten
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wealth it's been turned into a museum
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celebrating their
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rule I was born in the Philippines when
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I was growing up the Marcus's were
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deeply unpopular Marcus senior ruled for
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over 20 years including 9 years of
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Martial law during his dictatorship in
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the' 70s tens of thousands of Filipinos
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critical of the government were tortured
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imprisoned and
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killed in 1986 Marcus senior was finally
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ousted and his family forced into Exile
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when Filipinos revolted and pushed him
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out of office
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but none of that's on display here the
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Marcus have undergone a major rebranding
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and there's no mention of his violent
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regime
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anywhere hi Chris thanks for meeting us
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hey Atasha thank you very much meet you
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Canto palabi is a former student
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activist who was a victim of Martial law
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he grew up in the elus region one of the
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few anti- Marcus voices here how does it
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feel to be in a place like this
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uh uh I'm sad because I remember what
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happened during Marshal L and the
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excesses of the Marcos family and also
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the books and pictures of the
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family uh where it shows some of those
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uh historical uh uh
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revisionism what happened to you under
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martial law I was arrested uh together
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with my two brothers so they they put a
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sack on my on me and then they threw me
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to a a gep KNE and then they removed my
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clothes they electrocuted me um um even
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my private parts Canto was tortured and
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detained for almost 4 years his brothers
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faced a different fate what happened to
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your two brothers well my brother Romo
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uh he died in iuga so my mother and my
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sister they went to to retrieve the body
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the the face uh they crush it with the
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rle butts so two of your brothers died
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yeah of course I'm very angry because
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uh they were just you know young my
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older brother was only 23 years old at
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that time the other one 22 I was
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20 so that happened in during martial
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law and it is not an isolated case I
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would like to point it out that uh this
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happened uh this uh human rights
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violation happened all over all over the
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Philippines chanto finds it hard to
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believe that another Marcos is now
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president almost 40 years
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later Marcus Jr won by a landslide in
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2022 thanks to an alliance with another
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formidable and equally ruthless player
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down
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south I've come to Dava a coastal city
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on the other side of of the
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country this is dued territory here the
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dtis have ruled for decades and
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loyalties Run
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Deep these streets used to be full of
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crime until Rodrigo dette became mayor
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he had ruthless means of cracking down
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when he ran for president in 2016 he
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promised to use that same strategy at a
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national level and won by a huge margin
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Rodrigo DEA went on to become a popular
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president for 6
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years his appeal came from portraying
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himself as a man of the
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people pereria s Valas owns this local
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eery which worships the detera family
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good
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morning wow what a restaurant
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there's 70 years worth of photos on the
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wall including images of a young Rodrigo
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and Sarah as a child he in their house
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oh oh he was so young there's also
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pictures of Rodrigo's son Paulo now a
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congressman and Sebastian who is the
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current mayor of davo
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City wow thank
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you right
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it's very good
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yeah so do they come here often the
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family of the
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ter one kilo of tapa one kilo of this
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that's the favorite of the
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family the bir is very good to everyone
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of us I'm you SE light night night may
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never I've never seen anything like this
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no no no this is the first time I've
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seen so many photos of
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thees I've come to the ancestral home of
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the detera family where the former
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president was raised his older sister
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Elanor still lives here it's become a
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shrine to the detered
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dynasty thank you for having
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me
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hello uh this house is uh up to the
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present time is 60 60 years wow oldest
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of All My Siblings next to me is my
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brother who is the former president
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Rodrigo the 30 the 83-year-old is proud
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of her family's political achievement
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and doesn't mince words when it comes to
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the Marcus Clan do you think president
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Marcos was behind the impeachment of
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your nie of course of course the
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Republic of the Philippines is in
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political
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turmoil wherein corruption pervades in
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the government She's accused of
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corruption and misusing millions of P of
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public funds what they're using is a
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technicality in in the office of the
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vice president that's what they're
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trying to impeach her for and so this
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lawyers are saying no
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way but the people The Cry of the people
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is is the best defense how did you feel
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when your niece allied with the marcoses
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she
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trusted Marcus to be up and about a a
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moral
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morally upright person but she was
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deadly wrong even the Filipino people
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will admit that they they were all
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trapped like many in Daval she's
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convinced the allegations against her
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family are all political attacks she
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believes the charges against Sarah are
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baseless and that the extrajudicial
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killings under Rodrigo's presidency are
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made up during your brother's War on
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Drugs thousands of Filipinos died it was
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all black propaganda there is no such
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thing there that never happened
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because they tried to destroy him so
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that the next person in line or the
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opposition in line they will build up a
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a man that can
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be that can take the place of my
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brother the feud between the marcosus
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and duus has hit fever pitch and it's
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unfolding in the thick of the midterm
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elections
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I'm back in Manila to meet again with
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political analyst Ronald
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Lamas why did the Marcus and the duus
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form an alliance the duus would rather
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have Sara run for president but since he
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didn't want to run the best option is
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for them to Ally with somebody who who
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is politically closer to them at the
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time The Logical Alliance was with the
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marcoses and the most popular candidate
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for president was Sarah duterte so if I
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were the marcoses and I want to be sure
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of winning I would Ally Alliance form an
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alliance with them uh Marcos and Sara
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won without attending any presidential
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debate even Sara later on admitted last
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year that there was uh not even
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friendship
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almost immediately cracks started to
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show between the two families well of
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course uh the marcoses were very strong
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in the North and then uh of course the
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detes are here in southern Mindanao by
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June 2024 Sarah duterte had resigned
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from the president's Cabinet why is
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there a feud between the marcosus and
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the dues they were fighting for
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succession for continuity it was 2022
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but the fight was over 2020 who will be
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the next president and the marcoses knew
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that if they don't go for the jugular
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against
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the uh they are in danger of being
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annihilated politically as well as
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physically the Marcus seem to have the
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upper hand last week Rodrigo dette was
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arrested in Manila and is in jail
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awaiting trial for alleged crimes
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against humanity before the
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international criminal court
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he waged a merciless War on Drugs from
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2016 to 2022 that targeted the poor you
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can hold me responsible for any death
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that has occurred in the execution of
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the drug
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war Vigilantes gunned down drug suspects
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police shot alleged users and dealers
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and hid behind claims of
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self-defense right groups estimate up to
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30,000
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died when they were allies Marcos
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initially said he would block the IC
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from investigating duus drug
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war but as their Feud intensified there
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was a tectonic shift his government said
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it would oblige interpole if it were to
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arrest Rodrigo
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dette which it
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did ner colaris is the lawyer who
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petitioned the IC to investigate on
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behalf of the families of victims of the
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drug
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war well the international criminal
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court case uh was born because of the
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failure or the refusal of the justice
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system to uh give uh justice to the
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victims of extrajudicial killings in the
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Philippines and provide the mechanism
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for accountability for the perpetrators
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of these heinous crimes so when the
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justice system fails to deliver Justice
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to the victims the IC became
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the only Arena left where the families
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of the victims of extrajudicial killings
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can bring their case and at least get
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Justice for their loved ones the IC has
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decided to arrest duterte what is the
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significance of that very significant
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first it is significant because it will
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show that to the families that fighting
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for your rights fighting for the for
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justice for your loved ones is a very
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important step in
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accountability and second of course it
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will further uh [ __ ] the duterte
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because he is the head of the clan and
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thirdly well for us it will send a
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message to Future human rights violators
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or current human rights violators that
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Justice will come in the end no matter
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how long uh justice will come in the
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end one person who is waiting for
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justice to be served is former Senator
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Laya Del
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Lima she knows firsthand the brutality
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of the drug war hi good morning good
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morning Natasha hi thank you for meeting
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us oh my
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pleasure in 2009 when I was the
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chairperson of the Philippine Commission
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on human rights I led the investigation
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into the so-called devout death squad
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killings and he had never forgot he has
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not forgotten that he has he has not
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forgiven me for that he has marched me
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when she was elected Senator and du
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Tan's president in 2016 she initiated
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another inquiry into the drug war soon
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after lla found herself in
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jail what did they charge you with oh
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three illegal drug trading case they had
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to present physical evidence real
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evidence and they didn't have that
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simply because the charges were traed up
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at that time first day I was in utter
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disbelief and I was
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enraged I I did not believe that they
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could do that to me they know they they
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knew and they know that these were all
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false charges but they still did that to
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me Laya was detained for nearly 7 years
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before being cleared of all charges in
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2023 after duerta left
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office do you believe it was President
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duter behind your detention absolutely
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no one else I mean uh he is he's my main
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oppressor he's being vindictive about
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why what I did have you forgiven
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president duerte
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no I have not
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yet I still cannot find the
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heart to do that at this point maybe in
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time I'd learned they just wanted to
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silence me so that other politicians
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other political figures would no longer
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would have the courage to also slam or
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um uh um fight the uh the killings in
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the War on Drugs
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OHA Kay
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helloo an
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balita the arrest of DET is welcome news
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for the families who have lost loved
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ones to the drug
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[Applause]
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war
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[Music]
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[Music]
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fore
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Wang talaga
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for do you think president maros has
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weaponized the ICC against his Nemesis
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well I hope not because ICC is for
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accountability and Justice it's not
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supposed to be used for your political
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fortunes we don't care in the end what
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marcos's purpose was uh as long as
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Justice is afforded to the victims
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that's what's important for
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us the detas refused to go down without
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a fight despite the ICC arrest the
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family continues to be much beloved
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among loyal
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followers Sarah hinted at running for
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president in
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2028 if she survives the
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impeachment
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202 while these dast these fight it out
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the real losers are the Filipino
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people political dynasties is one of the
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main reasons why the Philippines
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continues to be underdeveloped in the
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Philippines corruption flourishes
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dynasties always say but we won
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elections fair and square I say no you
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didn't win elections fair and square in
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fact the family names of the Dynasty is
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what made them win so no matter who wins
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this feud between the marcoses and
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duterte we will continue to assert the
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rights of the Filipino people until we
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achieved a society that respects human
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rights respects opinion respects desent
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