10/05/2026
Reading this stopped me cold.
The Bongbong Marcos government, and no one else, is directly responsible for handing former President Rodrigo Duterte over to the Hague. This is not speculation. This is a fact.
They had a choice. They always had a choice.
The ICC operates under the principle of complementarity. And critically, non-cooperation with the Court is not just an option; it has precedent.
The ICC’s own published records confirm that member states have failed to comply with the Court's requests. It happens. Countries like Tajikistan and Italy didn’t comply, and they have their reasons; they confidently make that call.
But what did the Marcos administration do? The complete opposite.
They surrendered a man who won the presidency with more than 16 million votes, a leader with a demonstrated popular mandate and one of the highest satisfaction ratings in modern Philippine history, to a foreign tribunal.
Without exhausting domestic remedies. Without invoking our sovereign right to handle our own. Without even the pretense of a fight.
This will not be forgotten.
History will record this moment for what it is: a Philippine government that chose foreign validation over national dignity, and in doing so, handed one of its own to powers beyond our shores.
That is not governance. That is abandonment, a DISPICABLE ACT OF BETRAYAL.
And the Filipino people will remember exactly who made that choice.
