Wednesday, September 15, 2021

International Criminal Court Backs Probe Of Duterte's War On Drugs In The Philippines

Investigators will focus on the period from 2016, when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office, through March 2019, after which the Philippines was deemed to have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court in a bid to avert its jurisdiction.

Officially, at least 6,000 Filipinos, mostly poor drug peddlers and addicts, have been killed in the anti-drug police operations. But rights groups say the number of victims could be four times that.

(Image credit: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)

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