{"id":70094,"date":"2025-03-13T01:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/12\/rodrigo-dutertes-arrest-could-be-telling-blow-in-the-philippines-dynastic-feud"},"modified":"2025-03-13T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:04:04","slug":"rodrigo-dutertes-arrest-could-be-telling-blow-in-the-philippines-dynastic-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70094","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s arrest could be telling blow in the Philippines\u2019 dynastic feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president was surrendered to The Hague amid a row between his family and that of the current president<\/p>\n<p>Few expected things to move so quickly. Supporters of the Philippines\u2019 former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/rodrigo-duterte\">Rodrigo Duterte<\/a> barely had time to protest before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/11\/rodrigo-duterte-arrest-manila-former-philippines-president-war-on-drugs-ntwnfb\">he was jetted off to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity<\/a> in relation to his country\u2019s so-called \u201cwar on drugs\u201d. According to activists, this bloody crackdown has seen as many as 30,000 people killed since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The charges brought against the former leader are the culmination of years of work by activists, lawyers and victims, who documented abuses committed under his government, often at great personal risk. But Duterte arguably would not have been surrendered to The Hague if it weren\u2019t for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/10\/stage-set-for-battle-of-the-dynasties-as-rodrigo-duterte-eyes-return-to-politics-in-the-philippines\">his family\u2019s dramatic feud with that of Ferdinand Marcos Jr<\/a>, the current president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/12\/rodrigo-dutertes-arrest-could-be-telling-blow-in-the-philippines-dynastic-feud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president was surrendered to The Hague amid a row between his family and that of the current presidentFew expected things to move so quickly. Supporters of the Philippines\u2019 former president Rodrigo Duterte barely had time to protest before he wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1057,927,734,86,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs-trade","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-law","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70094\/revisions\/70095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}