“The International Criminal Court can only intervene where a State is unable or unwilling genuinely to carry out the investigation and prosecute the perpetrators.” The victims of the war against drugs inflicted by the Duterte administration on the Filipino people cry out for justice. Thousands have died from this war; many families have been affected. …
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Duterte should reconsider ICC strategy
“He must change course if he is to have a chance of averting arrest.” In this column, part of a series on ICC Prosecutor Ms. Fatou Bensouda’s Request for authorization filed before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the situation in the Philippines between 1 November 2011 and 16 March 2019 in connection with …
Extrajudicial Killings as official policy
“Here is the unassailable conclusion.” In the Request for Judicial Investigation filed before the International Criminal Court on the situation in the Philippines in the context of the Duterte Administration’s war on drugs campaign (WoD), Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda gives an exhaustive narration of the factual and jurisdictional bases to justify the grant of such Request. …
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Tony La Viña 