MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte cannot dodge responsibility for his administration’s bloody drug war.
This was the reaction of some activists and rights advocates on Tuesday to the request of prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be allowed to investigate the crimes against humanity case filed against Duterte.
“This may send shockwaves to enablers of this bloody campaign, but, to the relatives and family of the victims, to human rights advocates, we welcome this positive development and laud the painstaking manner by which the ICC Prosecutor found credence to the complaints and the pieces of evidence that the families of extra-…
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