In a statement, the ICC said that its Pre-Trial Chamber 1 granted
then-Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's June 14 orders to investigate crimes
"allegedly committed on the territory of the Philippines between 1
November 2011 and 16 March 2019 in the context of the so-called 'war on drugs'
campaign."
According to the ICC, a "specific legal element of heinous crime of
murder" was met in the context of Duterte's drug war between July 1, 2016
-- the day after President Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as chief executive — March
16, 2019, the day before the Philippines formally ended the Rome Statute, the
treaty that established the ICC.
The Duterte administration, according to presidential spokesperson Harry Roque,
will never engage because the country is no longer an associate of the ICC.
Source : GMA News
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