(11 Mar 2025)
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Manila, Philippines – 11 March 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS+++
1. Supporters of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte chanting his name outside Villamor Air Base after plane carrying him departed for the Netherlands
2. Police with riot shields
3. Duterte supporters chanting
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Franc Almacen, Duterte supporter and shipping company mechanical engineer: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“It is not good (for Duterte) to be treated like that with all what he has done for our country and the way he served as president.”
5. Duterte supporters chanting
6. Supporter holding Philippines flag
7. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Leony Tagawa, 53, Duterte supporter and housewife:
“I’m here to support former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte because he did nothing wrong to our country. He was able to help our fellow citizens a lot, especially the poor and during the time of the coronavirus pandemic.”
8. Wide of Duterte supporters
STORYLINE:
A few hundred supporters of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte held a rally outside the Villamor Air Base on Tuesday after a plane carrying him departed Manila for The Hague where he is set to face charges of crimes against humanity.
Duterte was to be turned over to the International Criminal Court which has ordered his arrest, President Ferdinand Marcos said.
The 79-year-old was detained under an ICC warrant after arriving with his family from Hong Kong at Manila’s international airport earlier in the day.
The global court ordered his arrest through Interpol after accusing him of crimes against humanity over deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office, Marcos said in a late-night news conference.
Supporters of Duterte gathered outside the Villamor Air Base where the plane eventually departed from after dark.
Franc Almacen and Leony Tagawa each praised his time as president and service to the country.
The ICC has been investigating mass killings in crackdowns overseen by Duterte when he served as mayor of the southern Philippine city of Davao and later as president.
Estimates of the death toll of the crackdown during Duterte’s presidential term vary, from the more than 6,000 that the national police have reported up to 30,000 claimed by human rights groups.
The ICC arrest warrant, seen by The Associated Press, said “there are reasonable grounds to believe that" the attack on victims "was both widespread and systematic: the attack took place over a period of several years and thousands people appear to have been killed.”
AP video shot by Basilio Sepe
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