00:00The Philippines will cooperate if Interpol is requested by the International Criminal
00:04Court to issue arrest warrants in connection with its probe into former President Rodrigo
00:09Duterte's bloody war on drugs.
00:11The ICC opens an investigation into possible crimes against humanity due to thousands of
00:17people killed in Duterte's anti-drugs crackdown in 2016.
00:21Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin says, quote, if the ICC makes a move and courses the move
00:27through the Interpol, and the Interpol makes the request to us for the arrest of delivery
00:31of the custody of a person subject to ICC jurisdiction, we will respond favorably or
00:36positively to the Interpol request.
00:39Duterte and the police denied the activists' claim of systematic executions and cover-ups,
00:43saying drug suspects were killed in self-defense.
00:47In 2019, Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC's founding treaty after the court
00:51began investigating the killings, and the country refused to cooperate with the investigation
00:56until recently.
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