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Victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs hope International Criminal Court prosecutors will expand the murder charges against him.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/victims-duterte-drug-war-hope-expansion-murder-charges-lawyer/

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00:01Victims of former President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on drugs hope

00:05International Criminal Court prosecutors will expand the murder charges against him.

00:10The victims really are praying and hoping that there will be an expansion

00:14because in fact there were thousands upon thousands of arbitrary arrests,

00:18illegal imprisonments that were committed under the Duterte War on Drugs.

00:24ICC accredited lawyer Gilbert Andres says,

00:26ICC prosecutors still saw the mere dozens of victims in the charges as emblematic

00:31or examples of more killings that occurred under Duterte's command.

00:35Duterte's confirmation of charges hearing was set for Tuesday,

00:38but the ICC delayed it due to questions about his fitness to stand trial.

00:43The evening before, September 22, ICC prosecutors released a document

00:47charging Duterte with three counts of widespread murder as a crime against humanity.

Victims of Duterte’s drug war hope for expansion of murder charges – lawyer

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