The cockiness, expletives and threats unleashed by former President Rodrigo Duterte in a Senate inquiry brought back the nightmare of the bloody “war on drugs” for many families of the thousands of victims who were gunned down under his rule.
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The thousands of killings — which human rights groups estimate could exceed 20,000 — under Duterte were unprecedented in recent Philippine history and triggered anThey have also become a delicate fault line in the increasingly hostile rivalry between Duterte and his children, including Vice President, and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. They had a bitter political fallout over key issues.
Looking frail and misstating his age as 73 at one point, the daylong Senate hearing also served as the latest reality check on the political restraints that Duterte and his family face after he relinquished his grip on power. “You’re trying to pin me down on semantics,” Duterte blurted out at Hontiveros, who shot back: “You’re pinned by your own words.”
Former Sen. Leila de Lima, one of the most vocal critics of Duterte who was arrested and detained for years during his presidency, confronted him during the hearing.
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