‘NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR FIVE YEARS FOR JUSTICE TO BE SERVED’ The opposition lawmaker renewed her call for the Marcos administration to let the ICC look into the drug war killings where most of the fatalities were from the poor. READ:
More than hope
The senator said that exacting accountability should include all those responsible for the drug war deaths, not just the subordinates who were just carrying out orders under Duterte’s brutal antinarcotics drive. For Hontiveros, the country’s judicial processes have failed to speed up the resolution of cases involving drug war deaths. “This is why I am looking forward to the ICC probe, so they may assist our authorities in the investigation of state-sponsored “tokhang,” she said, referring to Duterte’s controversial antidrug strategy.
The first drug war case to result in a conviction was also on a teenager’s death in 2017. A year following the killing of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos, three policemen, also assigned to Caloocan City like Perez, were sentenced to 40 years in prison without parole.
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