International Criminal Court Will Investigate Duterte Over Drug War
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International Criminal Court Will Investigate Duterte Over Drug War
Last year, after an outcry over the killings of three teenagers by police officers, Mr. Duterte suspended the police operations
and put the antidrug campaign in the hands of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
ayed down the significance of the inquiry, saying that the tribunal prosecutor was "merely exercising his mandate to determine whether there is reasonable basis to proceed." The tribunal can take cases only if a country’s own judicial system is unable or unwilling to pursue them, a condition
that Mr. Roque said did not apply to the Philippines. that Mr. Roque, the presidential spokesman, pl
8, 2018
MANILA — The International Criminal Court said on Thursday
that it was opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine officials had committed crimes against humanity in the course of the government’s deadly crackdown on drugs.
He called Mr. Duterte the "mastermind" of a campaign of extrajudicial killings
that dated to the late 1980s, when he became mayor of the southern city of Davao, and that greatly escalated after he became president.
Harry Roque said that As we do, we hope to count on the full engagement of the relevant national authorities in the Philippines.
In a 77-page complaint filed to the tribunal in April, a Filipino lawyer accused Mr. Duterte
and 11 other officials of mass murder and crimes against humanity.
Senator Antonio Trillanes, a prominent political foe of Mr. Duterte, said the news of a
preliminary inquiry "should jolt Duterte into realizing that he is not above the law.
Last year, after an outcry over the killings of three teenagers by police officers, Mr. Duterte suspended the police operations
and put the antidrug campaign in the hands of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
ayed down the significance of the inquiry, saying that the tribunal prosecutor was "merely exercising his mandate to determine whether there is reasonable basis to proceed." The tribunal can take cases only if a country’s own judicial system is unable or unwilling to pursue them, a condition
that Mr. Roque said did not apply to the Philippines. that Mr. Roque, the presidential spokesman, pl
8, 2018
MANILA — The International Criminal Court said on Thursday
that it was opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine officials had committed crimes against humanity in the course of the government’s deadly crackdown on drugs.
He called Mr. Duterte the "mastermind" of a campaign of extrajudicial killings
that dated to the late 1980s, when he became mayor of the southern city of Davao, and that greatly escalated after he became president.
Harry Roque said that As we do, we hope to count on the full engagement of the relevant national authorities in the Philippines.
In a 77-page complaint filed to the tribunal in April, a Filipino lawyer accused Mr. Duterte
and 11 other officials of mass murder and crimes against humanity.
Senator Antonio Trillanes, a prominent political foe of Mr. Duterte, said the news of a
preliminary inquiry "should jolt Duterte into realizing that he is not above the law.