Victims’ counsels ask ICC to rule Duterte fit for trial
Lawyers of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war victims urged the International Criminal Court to declare the former president fit to stand trial on Nov. 30.
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Mariza Hamoy on her son’s murder: The pain remains raw and deep as it was ten years ago
Mariza managed to buy a new barong for Darwin before he was placed in a casket. “Sabi ko hindi ko pasuotin ‘yung anak ko ng luma ‘kay last chance ko nang mabilihan siya ng damit.”
Drug War Truth Commission opens first hearing with slain teenager case
At the hearing at the Pius Center in Paco, Manila, Luzviminda Siapo testified about the killing of her 19-year-old son, Raymart Siapo, who had a clubfoot.
Duterte drug war to face a Truth Commission
Victims’ suffering is central and foundational to a truth commission, serving in fact as the core justification for its existence and the primary metric of its success.
Duterte’s snub of hearings a factor in ICC’s decision to keep him detained
The decision of former president Rodrigo Duterte not to attend the confirmation hearings in his case of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Haque, Netherlands was a major factor in the May 22 decision of the Trial Chamber III to deny his request for interim release and for him to continue in detention at Scheveningen prison.
The kunwari war: Duterte family’s private army
In DDS hitman Edgar Matobato’s testimony submitted to the ICC, he narrated a killing at Deca Homes: So Paolo called us, Major Lao, Major Francia to go to Deca Homes. We entered the home of the victim. Paolo ordered us to kill them.
The kunwari war of Rodrigo Duterte
The falsehood has been relentlessly repeated that it has become the truth to those who want to believe it: Duterte eliminated the dregs of society. Did he? He didn't.
Vitaliano Aguirre’s art of comfortably lying
As secretary of Justice, Aguirre announced that “The criminals, the drug lords, drug pushers, they are not humanity. They are not humanity.”
Exhumation of 2 more EJK victims: A process towards healing
The exhumation, part of the process of healing for the relatives of the victims of extra-judicial killings during the war on drugs waged by the government of former president Rodrigo Duterte, was doubly significant at it transpired a week before the confirmation of hearings of Duterte and his co-perpetrators at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands on Feb. 23.
Dela Rosa, Go named as Duterte’s co-perpetrators in ICC charge sheet
The ICC document said the handlers reported to a combination of police and co-perpetrators, in particular, Dela Rosa, Danao and Sonny Buenaventura, a police officer and Duterte’s driver and bodyguard, and Go, who, in turn, reported to Duterte, whose approval was required for DDS members to conduct killings in Davao City.
