‘A total reversal’: Duterte admin recognizes ICC jurisdiction by requesting for suspension of drug war probe – Trillanes

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to eventually resume its investigation into the bloody war on drugs launched by the Duterte administration, according to a senatorial aspirant.

Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said the international court was merely observing due process by heeding the Philippine government’s request to suspend the probe.

The request made by the Duterte government indicated it finally recognized the jurisdiction of the international tribunal, Trillanes pointed out.

“This is just part of the ICC’s due process to determine if the government’s EJK investigation is genuine, but we all know that it is not. So, in a few months, the ICC will also find out that it is just part of the cover up of duterte and, therefore, we should expect it to resume its investigation,” Trillanes said on Facebook.

“More importantly, with the deferment request, the duterte admin formally recognized ICC’s jurisdiction over it, which is a total reversal of their earlier assertions,” he said.

The ICC has decided to suspend its investigation into the alleged rights abuses linked to Duterte’s drug war in which thousands of people were killed. The deferral was made upon the request of the Philippine government.

Last September, the Agues-based court gave consent to the official investigation into the drug war, an action welcomed by rights groups as well as family of drug war victims

President Duterte previously declared that not in a million years will the ICC have jurisdiction over him, citing the country was no longer a member of the Rome Statute that created the court. Duterte had said he would rather face charges before a local court than the foreign tribunal.

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