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'Find your peace, don't seek trouble': Duterte says on De Lima's tirades

Edith Regalado - Philstar.com
'Find your peace, don't seek trouble': Duterte says on De Lima's tirades
In this file photo taken July 25, 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Leila de Lima shake hands after the President delivered his 2016 State of the Nation Address at the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City.
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MANILA, Philippines — Former President Rodrigo Duterte, addressing the recent tirades of former Sen. Leila de Lima, said on Sunday that "she should be at peace with her life now."

“Even if she submits herself to crucifixion, whatever she would do now, she still shamed the entire generation after her. They will bear her name but the shame will be there,” Duterte said.

“Find your peace where you are now. Don’t look for trouble, you will only regret it. Why would you get back at me? I don’t do rock and roll,” he added, in apparent reference to a video showing De Lima dancing in a rock concert of a convicted drug lord inside the Bilibid prison.

Duterte also warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) over an alleged impending service of a warrant of arrest against him.

“I don’t give a s**t whether they come in. For me, they have no jurisdiction. The Philippines already left ICC. We are not part of the ICC. If they would insist that there is a case there that would warrant my arrest, I will wait for them,” he said.

The former chief executive added that he does not want any official of the Philippine National Police or the National Bureau of Investigation to serve the warrant.

“I want the ICC representative to bring me that paper because the moment that person gives it to me, I will let you eat that paper or I will deliver you to hell,” Duterte said. –  Diana Lhyd Suelto, Miriam Desacada

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