Youth group calls out 'pa-victim' behavior
MANILA, Philippines — Kitty Duterte, daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte, should stop playing the victim card after her father’s arrest and turnover to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, according to youth group Kabataan Partylist.
“Stop this pa-victim behavior. Your family is not the victim. Your father is the victimizer,” said Renee Louise Co, Kabataan Partylist’s first nominee in the midterm elections.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Duterte for the alleged crime against humanity of murder stemming from his bloody war on drugs.
“In the eyes of Filipinos, Duterte will always be the dictator, murderer, and victimizer, never the victim. Kitty Duterte’s social media activity is ironic and insulting to a lot of youth who lived through Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody regime,” Co said.
“You and your family are playing victims despite your complicity and deafening silence over your father’s war on drugs that killed 30,000 Filipinos, many of them youths,” she added.
Co recalled the tragic stories of victims such as Christina Padual, 29, who was shot while eating dinner, and Kian de los Santos, 17, who pleaded for his life before being killed by the police. She also cited Myca Ulpina, a 3-year-old girl who was shot dead during a police operation, with former police chief and current senator Ronald dela Rosa dismissing it with the remark, “sh*t happens.”
