00:00Many Filipinos said that former President Rodrigo Duterte should be held responsible for the extrajudicial killings under his War on Drugs.
00:09This is based on the results of the study conducted by the Social Weather Stations.
00:13Harley Valbuena is in the center of the news.
00:18More than half of Filipinos favored former President Rodrigo Duterte to be held responsible for the bloody War on Drugs.
00:26In the survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations on February 15, 2025,
00:3251% of respondents believe that former President Rodrigo Duterte should be held responsible for the extrajudicial killings under his War on Drugs.
00:4225% disagreed while 14% were undecided.
00:48In Metro Manila, 45% favored former President Rodrigo Duterte to be held responsible.
00:54Agri-percentage in Visayas, 62%
01:0060% in Northern Luzon, 49% in Balans Luzon, 48% in Central Luzon, and 44% in Southern Luzon.
01:10In Mindanao, Baluarte, 47% favored former President Rodrigo Duterte to be held responsible.
01:16A total of 52% favored former President Rodrigo Duterte to be held responsible in rural areas and 48% in urban areas.
01:24The SWS Survey was commissioned by the StratBase Group,
01:28which was led by 1,800 adult respondents nationwide,
01:33or 300 in Metro Manila,
01:3570 in Balans Luzon,
01:37300 in Visayas,
01:39and 300 in Mindanao.
01:41An ICC-accredited lawyer believes that because more Filipinos are favored to be held responsible by the former president,
01:49this will strengthen the families of the EJK victims.
01:54The families of the victims have been afraid to go out for a long time.
01:59Now, there's a bigger chance that they will go out and participate.
02:05According to Attorney Butuyan,
02:07there is a process where the families of the victims can voluntarily apply to be witnesses in Duterte's case in the ICC.
02:16According to official data,
02:18more than 6,000 drug suspects were killed in drug war operations in the Duterte administration from 2016 to 2022.
02:28Now, human rights organizations claim that this could reach up to 30,000 because of unreported crimes.
02:38Duterte is currently in the custody of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands,
02:44in charge of the case of Crimes Against Humanity.
02:47If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.
