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Joma Sison: FB Live video shows Duterte can still face arrest, trial at ICC


Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria "Joma" Sison on Tuesday said that based on a video, President Rodrigo Duterte looks like he will live long enough to be arrested and stand trial before the International Criminal Court. 

Duterte was shown in a Facebook Live video taken by Special Assistant to the President Christopher "Bong" Go on Monday denying that he is in a comatose state .

Sison had claimed Duterte has gone into a coma after he said those who were at the national convention of his San Beda Law fraternity Lex Talionis Fraternitas on Saturday “reported that the darkness of his face had become aggravated from its appearance the other day and that his walk and handshake had become more unstable.” 

To disprove the allegation, Go videoed Duterte on Monday having dinner with a female companion

"If the video showing Duterte hotel-dating a young woman was really recorded on Monday night (Davao time), I am pleased to see that Duterte is still alive and that there is a chance of his living long enough to be held accountable for his crimes against the people and be tried by the people's court or by the International Criminal Court," Sison said in a statement posted in his Facebook account.

"Unlike him, I do not have any death wish for Duterte. In fact, I wish him to live long enough to receive a warrant of arrest, unlike the so many thousands of victims of Oplans Tokhang and Kapayapaan," he added.

Sison, however, still emphasized that Duterte looked tired and seemed to be recovering from a medical treatment.

"I am also gratified that the aforesaid video shows Duterte truly looking very tired and dispirited, his face still very dark and his right eye drooping. He looks like he just came from dialysis or some other kind of treatment on Sunday," Sison said.

The CPP founding chairman said the conflicting statements of Duterte against him is also a sign of his weakened mental and moral condition.

He cited the claim of Duterte that he has been in and out of Dutch hospitals as a charity patient, but the military said he is living a lavish lifestyle in the Netherlands.

Sison said the President also wanted him to live a thousand years, but has previously said he is sick and dying.

"I agree with all the forces of the broad united front that Duterte is unfit for the position of president of even the semicolonial and semifeudal state of big compradors, landlords and corrupt bureaucrats," Sison said. —KG, GMA News

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