00:00Former President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to back the police at the front lines of his war on illegal drugs
00:05But did he ever?
00:07But times and fortunes have changed with the cops who shot and killed small-time pushers and users
00:13Without the benefit of due process will now be held into account as our Harley Valbuena lays out in this report
00:21After former President Rodrigo Duterte's arrest over crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court
00:28The police who enforced his war on illegal drugs could be the next to face cases
00:34But in the local courts
00:36ICC assistant to counsel attorney Christina Conti who also serves as counsel for the victims of extrajudicial killings
00:44Says she will recommend the filing of cases against the police
00:58According to Conti, this is the real aim of the ICC to hold accountable the highest officials if a country's justice system cannot
01:14And this will give way for the indictment of his subordinates in local courts
01:20Attorney Neri Colmenares who also stands as lawyer for EJK victims is
01:25Open on filing cases not just for the police operatives
01:29But against the police generals who enforced the drug war Colmenares added that during the Duterte administration
01:37They were restrained in filing cases because the police tampered with
01:42Important documents such as the SOCO and autopsy reports and the death certificates of the victims
01:55They were tampered with but the death certificate of the victims came out as a bronchopneumonia
01:59So how can you file a case against the police?
02:03The court will say that your son was not killed
02:07This in addition to the fear hanging over and felt by the families of victims
02:12Given some police involved in EJKs are still in active service
02:17Dalia Cuartero, the mother of illegal drug war victim Jesus Cuartero
02:22Says she tried to file a case before with the assistance of Commission on Human Rights
02:28But fell short because of witnesses refusal to testify
02:32She therefore called on President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to hold accountable
02:37Not just Duterte, but the police who took part in the bloody illegal drug war
02:53The police are not just accountable to Mr. Duterte
02:59They are also accountable to Mr. Bato de la Rosa, one of the generals who carried out the drug war
03:06Aside from Duterte, former PNP chiefs Ronald Bato de la Rosa and Oscar Albayalde
03:12Are among the top personalities slash suspects tagged in the ICC case
03:18Howard Y. Valbena from the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines
