VERA Files
Top Malacañang officials blasted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for violating the country’s “sovereignty” after it greenlighted the launch of a full-blown investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial “war on drugs.”
President Rodrigo Duterte “will never cooperate” with the International Criminal Court in the event its Pre-Trial Chamber grants the request of Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for investigation of the administration’s war on drugs campaign, Palace Spokesman Harry Roque said on Tuesday, June 15.
On January 31, 2021, Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa told the press that he was optimistic he will soon have a new US visa. A year earlier, he confirmed to the media that his US visa was canceled. Neither he nor the US embassy in Manila said why and when it happened. The senator surmised that his role in Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war may have been the reason behind it.
Four years into President Duterte’s War on Drugs – and three years since the death of Caloocan teen Kian delos Santos – Mr. Duterte’s first top cop, then-PNP Chief and now senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, admits: the controversial, bloody war should have started with an “internal cleansing,” targeting “scalawag” members of the police.
Sinabi ng International Criminal Court (ICC) noong Dis. 5 na “nais nitong wakasan” sa 2020 ang paunang pagsusuri nito sa mga umano’y krimen laban sa sangkatauhan na isinagawa ng gobyernong Duterte kaugnay ng giyera laban sa iligal na droga.
Here are three things you need to know about the ICC’s 2019 report.
PhilRights said there is enough evidence to conclude that the drug war “has resulted in gross and interrelated human rights violations that extended to the families and communities of those who have been killed.”
Latest survey results by an independent pollster do not support Angara’s claim.
Hindi pinatutunayan ng mga opisyal na tala ang kanyang pahayag.
Official records do not bear out his claim.