Philippines Former President Rodrigo Duterte Arrested: Whatever is happening these days in diplomacy worldwide. Among all, US President Donald Trump is seen connected to somewhere. After becoming President, Donald Trump is showing eye to big institutions. In the budget of the International Criminal Court, the White House has already spoken about the cut. Experts say that the Trump government does not want to pay a single penny to the ICC. Trump has made fun of many times by calling the International Criminal Court an ineffective organization. Amidst all these things, former President of the Philippines, Roderigo Durtete has been arrested by the Philippines government. The warrant was issued by the International Criminal Court against Durtete, after which he was arrested.
What are the allegations against Durtete
Durtete is alleged to have promoted massive violence and human rights violations in the name of campaign against drugs during his President’s tenure. When Rodrigo was the President of Durtete Philippines, he launched several campaigns to make the Philippines drugs free, but during these campaigns, their army and security forces took violent attitude towards the people, causing thousands of people to die. On the orders of Duterte, the police and the army killed many people, without any investigation. After the entire incident, there was a lot of uproar in the Philippines and on seeing this matter reached the International Criminal Court, where the hearing on human rights violations was held, after which the court issued a warrant against Durtete and this warrant was sent to the Philippines government through Interpol.
As soon as the warrant reached the government of the Philippines, he immediately arrested Durtete. However, there is also talk of having a political game behind this arrest. Some people believe that the current President of the Philippines B.K. Marcos has done this trick to remove his biggest political rival Durtete from the road.
Rodrigo Durtete is considered close to US President Donald Trump. The two leaders have had good relations and during Trump’s tenure, there was a lot of strength in the relationship between the US and the Philippines. In 2020, Durtete openly said that Trump should come again, so that the world can be welfare.
Expectation of misdeeds broken
However, after Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election in the US, Rodrigo Durtete also came out of power in the election held in the Philippines in 2022. Since losing the election, the misbeatum had been politically marginalized, but when Trump again won the President in America in 2024, Durtete hoped that good days would return for him too. Durtete was confident that after Trump came to power again, he would get support on the international stage again and his political future could get a new direction, but in the meantime a warrant by the International Criminal Court turned all his plans.
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