He killed 30 thousand people and was sure of impunity - but in the end he lost his power and stood trial. History of the former President of the Philippines.
In 2016, Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines and declared war on drug trafficking. In fact, it was a war against its own citizens: police and death squads killed slum dwellers without trial, then planted guns and drugs on them.
Journalists and human rights activists who spoke about it were declared communists, imprisoned and killed. But they continued to collect evidence.
Duterte is now a defendant at the International Criminal Court in The Hague: he is accused of crimes against humanity.
In the new episode of Dangerous People, Ilya Azar tells how a man of enormous power came to trial - and why this story gives hope not only to the Philippines.
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