[REFLECTION] On Duterte’s arrest and sovereignty 

Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent arrest and turnover for trial into the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has predictably stoked the fires of passion among both supporters and detractors.

Interestingly, those who have always supported him even through all the extrajudicial deaths and spilled blood in the name of his war on drugs are now ironically protesting his arrest on the ground of the lack of ‘due process’:  the ICC does not have jurisdiction over alleged crimes that happened in the Philippines...