Manila, the Philippines – Nearly eight years have passed since the disappearance of the brothers Cresanto and Juan Carlos one morning in the city of Kwazon, a northern sprawling area of ​​the Manila Metro.

Within one day, their bodies that have no life were discovered with bullets. But did not kill them brutally continued to chase their mother, Basco’s cryDuring all these years.

That morning in May 2017, Christo, a 34 -year -old father, left the house early to pick up a license to work as a private security guard. It was not long before, Juan Carlos, 31, will follow a part -time Pilate collection, his brother outside his home.

They will never return.

The next day of the disappearance, their mother told Al -Jazeera how she and other relatives were shocked to learn from a television news report that her two sons were killed, the police accused them of theft. It took a full week and a huge fee of $ 1500 to BASCO to restore their bodies from the morgue.

Their funerals followed years of torment, as Basco lived without hope for justice at all.

So when hearing news this week from arresting the country Former President Rodrigo Duttiti On his brutal war on drugs, it was overcome with emotion.

“I felt tense and extreme fear, but I am also excited,” said Pasco, a part -time diet and a massage processor.

“My eyes were full of tears. Finally, after many years of waiting, this happens. This is,” I told the island.

Pasco, a prominent member of the Rise Up for Life and Rights, a group of mothers and wives, said the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued the arrest warrant for myotrt that He was killed in the country’s drug war.

Basco told how it had a “little hope” to find justice to kill her children in the Philippines.

On Tuesday, the International Police Organization (Interpol) served the International Criminal Court against Doterti at Manila Airport, on charges of “crimes against humanity” related to thousands of killed drug users and drug dealers during his period in power.

Later in the same day, the Philippine government allowed Dutti to be transferred to the International Court of The Hague.

According to police records, More than 7,000 people They were killed in the control of the official tools ordered by Dotty while he was in his position from 2016 to 2022.

Human rights groups say that the actual number of killings can be closer to 30,000, including those who were killed by militants, and some of them later the secret police officers.

Doterti arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday afternoon, where he was official It was handed over to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Amid criticism and protests from the supporters of Doterte, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcus Junior said that sudden detention was in compliance in favor of “his country’s obligations to INTERPOL.”

Christine Baskwal was working in a hair salon when I heard the news about the arrest of Dutti.

“My client was asking me why I was crying while I was doing her hair,” I told Pascawal Al -Jazeera, adding that the memories of her late son, Joshua Baskol Lakmmana, rushed at that moment.

She said: “I passed a lot of pain and pain from the time Joshua was killed until the time when she began to claim justice for his death.”

Laxamana, a professional online player, was on his way home from a championship in the northern Philippines when he was anxious and killed by the police.

The records showed that he shot footage at the officers and tried to escape a motorcycle. But Laxamana did not know how to drive a motorcycle, and his family has always confirmed that he had never taken drugs or dealt with weapons, as the police claimed.

“For years, we felt very disappointed because nothing happens in the case of my son and other cases of killings outside the judiciary,” said Baskwal.

“So we were very surprised to hear the news about the arrest of Doterte.” We are very happy that he will now have to confront us in court, “while she also admitted that the two police officers involved in the death of her son will never be tried.

“My family will not be the same because Joshua has disappeared now.”

“Unbearable Pain”

Luzviminda Siabo, the mother of another victim of the drug war, said that she felt a feeling of comfort after she learned that Dotrt had been transferred to The Hague.

“Seeing Duttiti is arrested and transferred to prison in The Hague, I feel that I have already achieved a great deal of justice,” Siabo told Al -Jazeera.

“Despite everything he did, and despite the deaths he caused, I wonder what he will gain in return?”

Saybu said that Dotter should also be grateful for not arresting him and he will be granted the legal procedures in the International Criminal Court – something that was rejected to her murdered son.

Her son, Remart Siabu, was only nineteen years old when he was kidnapped and he was shot twice in his head by many convincing militants. He left his body in a village near the Bay of Manila.

According to news reports at the time, Raymart had a conflict with one of the neighbors who led to wrong accusations by the authorities that the teenager was involved in selling marijuana.

A day after the cursed accusation was delivered, the unknown suspects came looking for Rimart, forcing him to a motorcycle and taking him to a neighboring neighborhood, where he was ordered to go down and run for his life.

She was born with distorted feet, the teenager had never gone when the gunmen started shooting at him.

“I feel unbearable pain that loses a child in front of the drug war,” Saybu told Al -Jazeera.

Children “side damage”

The family members of others who were killed in the drug war met on Wednesday, during a press conference organized by the Rise Up and the National Union of Persons.

In this event, Emily Soriano, the mother of 15 -year -old, said that while she welcomed the arrest of Duttiti, she wanted to try and imprison others, including those who have provided direct orders to carry out the police operation that led to the death of her child.

Soriano Senator Ronald Della Rosa, who has once held the position of senior police outlets during the drug war in Doterti.

Della Rosa has repeatedly defended the legality of the Dotti drug war. It was mocked by Shahira that the children who were killed in fire during the police operations were “Side effects”Adding that “SH ** happens.”

Soriano said Della Rosa and other police officers are guilty like Dotte.

“Good to my home, he is granted legal procedures. She said among the tears:” He still enjoys his bed. “

“What about my son who was killed? The remains of my son were rotting in the cemetery for more than eight years so far.”

Soriano insisted that her son was not a drug user and that he happened to be in a house targeting the authorities, which led to his killing.

During that operation, six other people were killed, including two other teenagers and a pregnant woman.

It was a very painful experience to lose a son who is not addicted to drugs. There were many people who jumped to conclusions that they were addicted to drugs. But they do not know the truth. “

She added that Dotrt’s anti -weakness policy was a war against the poor.

Late Wednesday in The Hague, the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, praised the arrest of Doterti, noting that “it means a lot to the victims” and proves that “international law is not weak as some believe.”

Khan said: “When we meet and build partnerships, the rule of law can prevail, orders can be executed,” said Khan.

Khan also said that his office is investigating the situation in the Philippines for several years, adding that the allegations of crimes against humanity also cover those cases committed before the election of Doterti as president in 2016, while he was still the mayor of the southern city of Davao.

Khan also confirmed that although he was arrested, Mister Deuttri is assumed innocent. “