Top 5 News This Week: Duterte’s ICC pre-trial, EDSA People Power’s 40th anniversary

The hour of reckoning for Duterte's war on drugs and for the state of Philippine democracy

There is a lesson time seems to be teaching Filipinos by allowing former president Rodrigo Duterte’s pre-trial at the International Criminal Court to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution.

We tell you what we think it is in the video, but we also recommend a deep dive into these reads:

#5: Rodrigo Duterte’s own words used against him at ICC pre-trial hearing

#4: Kaufman’s main defense: No direct link from Duterte to the dead bodies

#3: Insider witnesses: Duterte drug war victims ‘had to be the poor’ + ‘Minaliit ang aming pagkatao’: Victims say Duterte defense belittled their trauma

#2: Opposition figures are bickering again, this time over People Power protest actions + People Power at 40: Silence from Malacañang

#1: Framed as an ‘unfinished business,’ 40-year-old People Power faces test of 2028

It truly was a week worthy of deep reflection. – Rappler.com

Presenter, producer: JC Gotinga
Video editor: Emerald Hidalgo
Supervising producer: Beth Frondoso