00:00Well, here I would like to show you the statistics pertaining to the rate of killings since the former president
00:10has left power and the responsibility for law and order has passed into the hands of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
00:21I rely on a report published by academics at the Third World Study Center in the University of the Philippines
00:30in the context of what is called the Dahas Project.
00:33And trust me, the authors of this report comprising weekly statistics on the first year of the Marcos administration from
00:462022 to 2023 are no great friends of the former president, Mr. Duterte.
00:53This report was even cited, I remember, in a Rappeler article, but it's to be found on our list of
01:00evidence at PHL D36-0006-0001, pages 006 to 0010.
01:16The report for the first year of the Marcos administration showed that out of 342 killings, 160 were at the
01:27hands of state agents.
01:35And the figures and the statistics just kept on rising, with the second year of the Marcos administration, 2023 to
01:482024,
01:50showing an increase in deaths at the hands of vigilantes, albeit a decrease in deaths at the hands of law
01:59enforcement officers from 46.8% to 34%, hardly a statistic to be proud of.
02:10So, with all the prosecutions, fancy bar charts, I'm pretty sure that if they were to recreate them for the
02:20period of two years after Duterte left power,
02:24they wouldn't have room left on their computer screen. The numbers would be so sky high.
02:32The conclusion is, that there is no reason to believe that Duterte's disappearance from the political scene would have frustrated
02:42the ongoing incidents of murder at the hands of state agents or vigilantes.
02:53Clearly, I'm forced to ask myself whether anyone on the other side of this room has thought of investigating the
03:02Marcos regime and the related phenomenon and holding someone accountable.
03:08Why are my colleagues sitting to their right, the victims' representatives, not clamouring for accountability for those deaths?
03:17Or is it of no consequence, now that Mr. Duterte is sitting in the ICC detention centre?
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