00:00And President Duterte himself reminded me that I will retire and I will be accompanied by his children and his family after my retirement, even before my retirement.
00:18He encouraged me. But everything is okay. We have a thick skin and we can overcome it.
00:28Thank you very much, ma'am, and thank you very much for the support of our fellow countrymen.
00:32I just would like to reiterate that I don't find joy in doing these difficult jobs.
00:39First of all, I wasted my time preparing for my birthday.
00:43So, I just want to emphasize that I am not doing this for personal aggrandizement or anything else.
00:51We are doing this because this is our job, especially that I am the chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
00:58This is something that has to be done for the judicial processes to start.
01:04This is a process that happened here in the ICC, an international body.
01:09If they are looking for a neutral international body to decide on complaints against the former PRRD,
01:19this is the ICC because the people here are foreigners.
01:23The judges here are foreigners.
01:25This has nothing to do with the Philippines. This has nothing to do with personality.
01:29This only has to do with the facts that will be given to them for them to decide.
01:34I would like to emphasize that these judges are foreigners.
01:38But the complainants here are Filipinos.
01:42These are the Filipinos during the PRRD who did not see any hope in the judicial processes in our country at that time.
01:49That is why they went to the ICC because they saw a sitting senator and a former justice secretary in prison.
01:56These are the people who did not have the ability to fight and did not see any hope, that is why they went to the ICC.
02:01I would also like to emphasize that these are not the people who can get the services of their lawyers.
02:08Their lawyers are also volunteers who only carry the belief for justice.
02:17So now, they brought to a neutral forum, the former president, I'm very sure, has the capacity to defend himself
02:26using the lawyers that he can afford, that he will get.
02:30I think this is fair.
02:32At the time of the arrest issued by the ICC, all of this will start if the former president Duterte is taken into custody
02:40and they are often endorsed so that they can take the jurisdiction and the judicial process can start
02:47so that justice can be dispensed for all.
02:50If he is innocent, he can be declared innocent quickly.
02:54If he is guilty, he can be given a sentence quickly so that justice can be dispensed.
03:02These are the people who are complaining, claiming that they were victims of violation of the law.
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