BREAKING: Filipinos will hold a protest for Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday in Budapest!
There will be a peaceful assembly of Filipinos in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square this Sunday. The event will begin at 10 AM and is scheduled to end at noon.
Filipinos will demonstrate for Duterte
Filipinos living in Budapest started to circulate a social media call for a demonstration for the release of Former President Rodrigo Duterte (PRRD). They would like international authorities to release him and allow him to return home.
The organisers of the protest would like the participants to wear green T-shirts or jackets (a colour associated with Duterte’s political movement). Participants are to stay only in the Heroes’ Square during the demonstration, talk to each other in an enjoyable manner and take home all trash from the square following the end of the assembly.
Furthermore, they also shared Hungarian human rights NGO TASZ’s document about what demonstrators can and cannot bring to a protest in Hungary.
Rodrigo Duterte arrested due to crimes against humanity
Rodrigo Duterte is currently in the Hague after the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest, and the Filipino police carried that out on 11 March at Manila’s international airport. He is standing before the ICC due to an alleged crime against humanity. According to AP News, “the case stemmed from the deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw from November 2011 until March 2019 while serving as mayor of Davao City and later as president.”
Based on AP News, human rights groups talk about an estimated death toll of Duterte’s anti-drug campaign ranging between 20 and 30 thousand. The Philippine authorities acknowledge only 6,250 victims. Duterte generally denied being an “indirect co-perpetrator” in the murders or authorising the killing of thousands of suspects. He only admitted that he encouraged police officers to open fire on those suspects who violently tried to resist arrest.
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