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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court ruled Tuesday that an investigation into the Philippines' deadly “war on drugs” can resume, rejecting Manila ...
Lazcano is the most powerful cartel leader to be killed since the start of Mexico's drug war in 2006, according to Reuters. [306] This death came just hours after the navy arrested a high-ranking Zeta member in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Salvador Alfonso Martínez Escobedo.
He launched a blood war on drugs campaign. Officially, 6,229 drug personalities have been killed as of March 2022. [14] News organizations and human rights groups claim the death toll is over 12,000. [15] [16] The Philippine National Police led the drug war through Oplan Double Barrel which began in 2016. [17]
On October 13, 2016, about four months into the Philippine drug war, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda expressed deep concern over reports of extrajudicial killings of alleged drug dealers and users in the Philippines, stating that the ICC would be "closely following developments" in the country to assess whether to open a preliminary examination ...
The Philippines has said its investigation into killings during former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs will be "impartial", a day after its attempt to block a similar probe by the ...
Current and former U.S. officials say the bizarre episode is symptomatic of just how badly the relationship between the two countries has deteriorated in what used to be called the drug war — at ...
Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman were three teenagers who were killed on August 16 to 18, 2017, during the course of the Philippine drug war.. On the evening of August 16, 2017, a 17-year-old Filipino student named Kian Loyd delos Santos was fatally shot by police officers conducting an anti-drug operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila.
Members of the Mexican Navy stand guard next to packages on display after seizing 7.2 tons of drugs that were intercepted during operations in the Pacific Ocean off Manzanillo, Mexico, in this ...