Sara says she could be next after Duterte's arrest

Vice President Sara Duterte believes she could be the next person the International Criminal Court (ICC) will arrest after her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, was taken into custody for crimes against humanity over the war on drugs.

- NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

“My mother warned me, told me to be careful because I might be the next target of the ICC,” Duterte told reporters at Villamor Air Base on Tuesday night. Last year, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV bared that the Vice President has been included in the ICC’s investigation into the drug war because she allegedly green-lit tokhang operations when she was Davao City mayor from 2016 to 2022, as reportedly stated by witnesses who have come forward before the tribunal to testify against her.

The ICC’s investigation covers the killings committed during the drug war from July 1, 2016 to March 16, 2019 – when former president Duterte yanked the country from the Rome Statute.