WERE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED?
ICC to launch ‘preliminary examination’ on PH ‘war on drugs’
President Rodrigo Duterte (INQUIRER / JOAN BONDOC)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague will start its preliminary examination into the alleged extrajudicial killings in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs, Malacañang said on Thursday.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the government has been informed that the ICC has decided to conduct a preliminary examination on the government’s anti-illegal drugs drive to determine if there was a basis to conduct a formal investigation into allegations that Duterte committed crimes against humanity.
“Our mission in The Hague was informed that the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is opening a preliminary examination on the alleged acts associated with the campaign against illegal drugs covering the period of July 2016,” Roque said in a Palace briefing. /kga
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