Families of the victims of the “drug war” are pushing for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to forge ahead with its investigation of the bloody campaign as they see no hope in getting justice even under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos.
The government has suffered another setback in its effort to stop the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on drug-related crimes during the Duterte administration as an office of public lawyers in the tribunal shot down all the arguments it presented. In an April 18 submission, the Office of Public Counsel for Victims (OPCV)
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has insisted that the “extremely serious” drug-related crimes committed during the Duterte administration were encouraged by the former president himself and other top state officials.
The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested for the dismissal of the Philippine government’s appeal to suspend its investigation into alleged extrajudicial killings related to former president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war.
Binatikos ni Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla ang International Criminal Court (ICC) dahil sa “pagpipilit na pumasok sa Pilipinas” upang imbestigahan ang mga pagpatay na may kaugnayan sa droga noong panahon ng administrasyong Duterte sa kabila ng pagkalas ng bansa sa Netherlands-based tribunal. Kailangan nito ng konteksto.
Article 127, paragraph 2 of the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC, states that a country that has withdrawn is not cleared of its obligations for incidents that occurred during its membership. The Philippines officially became a member of the ICC in November 2011, thus binding the country to the treaty’s provisions until its official withdrawal on March 17, 2019.
A human rights group has urged Morris Tidball-Binz, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial or arbitrary executions, to either support the reopening of the investigation by International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan into alleged drug-related killings in the Philippines or conduct his own probe.
Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, the chief implementer of the controversial war on drugs during the Duterte administration, claimed without citing proof that no crimes against humanity occurred in the government’s anti-drug campaign.
Walang binabanggit na patunay, iginiit ni Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, ang punong tagapagpatupad ng kontrobersyal na digmaan laban sa droga noong administrasyong Duterte, na walang krimen laban sa sangkatauhan ang naganap sa kampanya kontra droga ng gobyerno.
The Philippine government has failed to convince International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan that it has been conducting an adequate probe on alleged crimes against humanity related to the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. %
