The International Criminal Court (ICC) should pay damages to the Philippines if it fails to show that the legal justice system within the nation isn’t functioning, Senator Robin Padilla stated Thursday.
“Ang kukulit niyo na…Kapag di nila napatunayan ‘yan siguro singilin natin sila ng damages… Dahil sa totoo lang ‘yung paulit-ulit nilang sinasabi na ang mga Pilipino ay palpak at kailangan nilang pumunta dito at mag-imbestiga, eh siguro dapat maningil na tayo ng damages,” he said in an interview with reporters.
(They’re so persistent. If they are not able to prove it we should demand damages…They keep saying that Filipinos are failures and they need to come here to investigate, so we should demand damages.)
He said the damages would be payment for supposedly destroying the country’s reputation on the international stage.
“Yung ibinabato sa atin ng ICC, nakakainsulto ito…Parang sinasabi nito na tayo ay una, mga engot. Tayong mga Pilipino engot dahil hindi natin alam na ‘yung gobyerno natin hindi tumatakbo nang tama. Pangalawa, ‘yung mga nasa gobyerno natin isa’t-kalahating engot din,” he stated.
(What the ICC is accusing us of is insulting…it is like they’re saying that, initially, that we’re idiots. We are idiots as a result of we have no idea that our authorities isn’t working correctly. Second, that the individuals in our authorities are even larger idiots.)
“Kung pukulan lang ng pagka-engot e baka mas engot sila. Eh bakit ngayon e gumagawa sila ng gulo doon sa lugar nila at tayo dito ang layo-layo natin naapektuhan tayo. Hindi ba dapat imbestigahan muna nila kung ano ang nasa bakuran nila bago sila pumunta sa Asia?” he quipped.
(If we’re hurling round stupidities then perhaps they’re stupider. Why have they got battle the place they’re and we’re affected by it even when we’re distant. Shouldn’t they examine what is going on on of their yard earlier than going to Asia?)
On Thursday Padilla additionally stated that if the ICC arrests Senator Ronald Dela Rosa then he too ought to go to jail in addition to he additionally supported Duterte’s lethal drug battle.
Recently, the ICC rejected the Philippine authorities’s attraction looking for the reversal of the worldwide tribunal’s determination to renew its probe into the Duterte administration’s controversial battle on medicine.
In rejecting the Philippines’ attraction, the ICC Appeals Chamber stated the federal government failed to clarify the Court’s lack of jurisdiction or to offer an evidence of the implications and scope of the investigation.
It additionally stated that the native investigation can proceed even with the continuing ICC investigation.
After its attraction was junked, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. stated the Philippines will likely be “disengaging” from any contact or communication with the ICC.
In February, Marcos stated he wouldn’t cooperate with the inquiry of the ICC into the abuses within the marketing campaign in opposition to unlawful medicine of the earlier administration. — BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
