Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla on Saturday insisted that they’d examine the hundreds of killings beneath the Rodrigo Duterte administration’s warfare on medication by itself.
Remulla issued the comment after the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights stated that the prosecution of perpetrators behind the killings within the warfare on medication “will go on forever” with the present tempo of the investigation.
“We will do it on our own,” Remulla stated.
Hannah Neumann, vice-chairperson of the subcommittee, stated the International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) help would be certain that the 6,000 killings can be “investigated properly.”
Neumann added that ICC involvement would help the victims’ families and witnesses have confidence that there would be no harassment and intimidation “by the exact same individuals who killed their family members.”
Last January, the ICC approved the reopening of an inquiry into the Duterte administration’s warfare on medication.
In 2018, then-President Rodrigo Duterte pulled the Philippines out of the Hague-based tribunal’s Rome Statute, with the withdrawal taking impact in 2019 after the ICC started a preliminary probe into the allegations of state-sanctioned killings in his warfare on medication.
The Philippines earlier referred to as on the ICC to not resume its investigation into Duterte’s lethal drug warfare, insisting the tribunal had no jurisdiction.
Officially, 6,181 individuals had been killed in Duterte’s drug warfare however rights teams say that as much as 30,000 could have been killed. — DVM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
