Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 11/03/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Rodrigo Duterte is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. He wanted his trial to take place in a court in the Philippines. “If I committed a sin, prosecute me in Philippine courts,” he told police officers while in custody in Manila. Rights organisations have accused Duterte of running a “death squad” as mayor. "I don’t care about human rights, believe me,” he later declared. He offered soldiers and police his “official and personal guarantee” of immunity from prosecution for deaths undertaken in the performance of their duties. Amnesty International report found that most of the people who were killed were living under the poverty line. In 2016 Francisco Santiago Jr told Al Jazeera that he and another man were detained by police in Manila, before they were shot multiple times. But Santiago stumbled on the ground and played dead. In another case in 2017, the Commission on Human Rights found a hidden cell inside a police station in Manila with 12 detainees cramped inside. In 2021, the government dismissed the complaint against the police officers, accused of the illegal detention. One of the youngest to have been killed was three-year-old Myca Ulpina, who was hit during a 2019 raid targeting her father. Llore Pasco, mother of two young men killed in alleged police chase, says she’s ‘filled with mixed emotion’ she said that the ICC is her one last hope for justice. Pasco’s sons, Crisanto and Juan Carlos, went missing from their neighbourhood one day in May 2017. ICC investigation was suspended in 2021 but reactivated two years later. The current government of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said it would not cooperate with the ICC, but said in late 2024 that it would comply with any arrest warrant.
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