ICYMI : The Philippines’ withdrawal from the Rome Statute is not a free pass for President Duterte to escape the judicial mantle of ICC or evade accountability for the deaths of thousands of alleged victims of his brutal war on drugs.
Malacañang said Duterte would not cooperate with the probe since the Philippines had already bolted from the treaty in 2019.
“Is there a global police by which the ICC orders arrest to be carried out? There’s no such thing in international law, in general, and no such thing for the ICC, in particular,” he said. He cited the case of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who was ordered arrested by the ICC in 2009 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for the deaths of over 10,000 of his countrymen during the Darfur war.
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