Vice President Sara Duterte questions the military why it did nothing to stop the arrest and transfer of former president Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague.
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00:00Vice President Sara Duterte questions the military why it did nothing to stop the arrest
00:06and transfer of former President Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague.
00:10The VP made a virtual appearance at the Thursday, March 20 hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations
00:15Committee, which Senator Aimee Marcos chairs.
00:18Dialing in from the Netherlands, the VP says her father, a suspect in crimes against humanity,
00:24was not accorded due process.
00:26In the same breath, she bemoaned what she called the AFP's silence.
00:31Defense Secretary Gilberto Trodoro Jr. gave this explanation during the hearing.
00:36Our sole mandate is to give support to the Philippine National Police when it is asked
00:43for.
00:45And therefore, such ends our jurisdiction.
00:50In an interview with reporters after the hearing, Trodoro explained, the AFP cannot do anything
00:55else but to support the civilian authorities.
00:58He added, for the AFP to diverge from civilian authority is anathema to civilian authority.