00:00Former President Rodrigo Duterte says he is ready for possible arrest.
00:05This following reports that the International Criminal Court
00:08had issued an arrest warrant on Saturday morning, March 8,
00:11but this could not yet be independently verified.
00:14Duterte says, quote,
00:15If this is truly my fate in life, it's okay, I will accept it.
00:19They can arrest me, imprison me.
00:21During a congressional hearing last year,
00:23Duterte said he was not afraid of the ICC
00:26and told it to hurry up in its investigation.
00:29Duterte withdrew the Philippines from ICC's founding treaty in 2019
00:33after it began investigating claims of widespread extrajudicial killings.
00:37The former president is in Hong Kong to speak at a campaign rally
00:40for the Partido Democrático Filipino with thousands of overseas Filipino workers.
00:45Senator Bongo attended the event,
00:47while Senator Bato de la Rosa delivered his message through video.
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