[Rappler’s Best] ‘Locked, loaded, and ready to go’

[Rappler’s Best] ‘Locked, loaded, and ready to go’

For four days last week, the Rappler newsroom relived the trauma of the Duterte years — as prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) played old videos from the heyday of the detained former president, when, through his words, he harassed, maimed, or killed his enemies. It was upsetting to hear him all over again, but cathartic. Rodrigo Duterte’s own words are now being used against him at the ICC, which held pre-trial hearings on the…