Stop victim mentality, Kitty Duterte told

Kitty Duterte, daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte, should stop playing the victim card after the arrest and turnover on Tuesday of her father to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, according to youth group Kabataan.

- JOSE RODEL CLAPANO

"Stop this pa-victim behavior. Your family is not the victim. Your father is the victimizer," said Renee Louise Co, Kabataan party-list's first nominee in the midterm elections.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Duterte for the alleged crime against humanity of murder stemming from his bloody war on drugs.

"In the eyes of Filipinos, Duterte will always be the dictator, murderer and victimizer, never the victim. Kitty Duterte's social media activity is ironic and insulting to a lot of youth who lived through Rodrigo Duterte's bloody regime," Co said.

"You and your family are playing victims despite your complicity and deafening silence over your father's war on drugs that killed 30,000 Filipinos, many of them youths," she maintained.

Christina Padual, 29, was gunned down while eating a late dinner of sardines, rice and watermelon, Co recalled.

Kian de los Santos, 17, begged for his life before getting shot by the police, Co said.

Duterte's former police chief Sen. Ronald dela Rosa said "sh*t happens" after Myca Ulpina, 3, was shot dead during a police operation, Co noted.

De Lima vindicated

Sen. Leila de Lima said Duterte's arrest is part of her vindication.