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By the end of Duterte's term, the number of drug suspects killed since Duterte took office was officially tallied by the Philippine government as 6,252. [13] Human rights groups, including the ICC, however, claim drug casualties reached as high as 12,000 to 30,000 [14] and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017. [15] [16]
But it was too late to stop a probe the ICC had started in 2016 that was looking into Duterte’s “war on drugs,” a bloody anti-illegal-narcotics campaign defined by mass extrajudicial ...
Philippine former President Rodrigo Duterte addresses supporters at a rally in Davao, Jan. 28, 2024. ... The issue over the ICC is just one of several flashpoints that have come between the ...
Duterte is limited to only a single six-year term as president and thus was ineligible to participate. [245] Bongbong Marcos was elected as Duterte's successor with the latter stepping down from his position on June 30, 2022. [246] Duterte also said he would still pursue his war on drugs even as a civilian after the end of his presidency. [247]
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has no authority to probe his predecessor's deadly war against drugs.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda expressed concern over the drug-related killings in the country on October 13, 2016. [58] In her statement, Bensouda said that the high officials of the country "seem to condone such killings and further seem to encourage State forces and civilians alike to continue targeting these individuals with lethal force."
In 2009, Duterte said: "If you are doing an illegal activity in my city, if you are a criminal or part of a syndicate that preys on the innocent people of the city, for as long as I am the mayor, you are a legitimate target of assassination." [3] Duterte then responded to a reported arrest and subsequent release of a notorious drug lord in Manila.
Duterte had pointed at former police officers present at a Senate inquiry into his deadly "war on drugs" on Monday as leaders of that death squad, the existence of which the former president and ...