MARIING kinukundena ng Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP Laban) ang hindi makatarungang pag-aresto kay dating Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte ng Philippine National Police (PNP) sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni PNP Chief Rommel Marbil at CIDG Director Nicolas Torre.
Ang sinasabing paghain ng Warrant of Arrest mula sa International Criminal Court (ICC) ay isang pakikialam sa ating judicial system at isang panghihimasok sa soberenya ng bansang Pilipinas. Malinaw na hindi na kasapi ng ICC ang ating bansa simula pa noong Marso 2019. Ang pakikipag-sabwatan ng administrasyong Marcos sa ICC sa ilalim ng pamumuno nina Marbil at Torre ay patunay ng pag suko ng ating bansa sa isang organisasyong hindi na dapat kilalanin ng mga Pilipino.
Higit dito ay ang pagsupil ng karapatang pantao ni dating Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte sa hindi pag payag ng mga nasabing opisyales na siya ay sumailalim sa isang medikal na pagsusuri sangayon sa rekomendasyon ng kanyang personal na doktor.
Malaki ang magiging pananagutan ng Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa sambayanan sa kanyang pagpayag na maaresto ang dating Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte.
Tinitiyak ng pamunuan at buong miyembro ng PDP Laban na ito'y magiging matatag at makikiisa sa mga pagtataguyod ng katarungan para kay dating Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
Duterte arrest a crucial step towards justice
The International Criminal Court (ICC), through Interpol, has issued an arrest warrant for former president Rodrigo Duterte on charges of crimes against humanity. His arrest is a victory for the long-standing campaign for justice for the thousands of victims of his regime’s bogus war on drugs. It is also a crucial step toward accountability for the families of those killed in his bloody counterinsurgency operations, which brutally suppressed dissent, activism, freedom of association, and workers’ rights.
For workers in Southern Mindanao, Duterte is the face of repression. His martial law in Mindanao (2017–2019) and the establishment of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in 2018 unleashed widespread labor rights violations, including: violent dispersals of workers’ strikes in Shin Sun (2017) and Sumifru (2018) in Davao de Oro; extrajudicial killing of trade unionist Danny Boy Bautista (2018); forced disaffiliation of the Musahamat Farm Workers Labor Union (2019); abduction and enforced disappearance of labor organizer William Lariosa in Southern Bukidnon; and ongoing harassment and red-tagging of labor leaders, local trade unions, and progressive organizations, both on the ground and online.
Considering these grave abuses, Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region (KMU-SMR) firmly believes that Duterte must be held fully accountable for his crimes against workers and the Filipino people. We urge the public to remain vigilant as his prosecution at the ICC unfolds and to join the broader movement demanding accountability, not just from Duterte, but from all those complicit in the gross abuse of power and human rights violations.
Duterte is neither a hero nor a victim; he must face the consequences of his crimes.