Filipino family feud leads to Duterte’s ICC arrest

Rodrigo Duterte finished his single permitted term as Philippines president in 2022, leaving 30,000 police murders in his wake and a popular approval rating at 88 per cent.

Last week’s arrest of former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court for the ‘crime against humanity’ of mass murder was long overdue, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 17, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—Everybody has heard the saying: “The mills of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.” The saying is a promise that all crimes will eventually be punished—but it is a lie.

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