{"id":151869,"date":"2018-02-09T02:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T07:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151869"},"modified":"2018-02-09T02:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T07:53:55","slug":"de-lima-lauds-icc-inquiry-on-ph-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/09\/de-lima-lauds-icc-inquiry-on-ph-drug-war\/","title":{"rendered":"De Lima lauds ICC inquiry on PH drug war"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Detained Senator Leila De Lima (Photo: Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Detained Senator Leila de Lima has praised the efforts of The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in initiating a preliminary examination into the government\u2019s bloody crackdown against illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

In a statement released on Friday, De Lima said that the tribunal\u2019s probe would define the offenses and alleged human rights violations thrown against President Rodrigo Duterte, describing it as a \u201cfulfillment of a hope and a dream\u201d and a \u201cwish granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis might actually be the beginning of the end for the Duterte kakistocracy,\u201d De Lima said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to start a preliminary examination on the Philippine situation\u2014preliminary to an investigation that will eventually charge this government, its leaders and all those complicit in the mass murder of thousands in its so-called drug war\u2014is the fulfillment of a hope and a dream,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The lady senator, known to be a staunch Duterte critic, claimed that the investigation is the start of the government\u2019s \u201cinternational isolation as a rogue criminal regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque confirmed that ICC is set to conduct its preliminary examination on the alleged summary executions related to the country\u2019s drug war.<\/p>\n

In April 2017, lawyer Jude Josue Sabio, counsel of self-confessed Davao Death Squad hitman Edgar Matobato, filed a complaint against Duterte and 11 other government officials before the ICC.<\/p>\n

The complaint accused Duterte of being a \u201cmass murderer,\u201d and sought to bring a suit against the president for \u201cthe terrifying and gruesome situation of continuing mass murder in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey might actually lie low for a while and order a temporary stop to the extra-judicial killings by the PNP death squads, in the hope to assuage the ICC Prosecutor that it is doing something to stop the killings, or even to fool her that there is actually no government-sponsored and funded program of social mass extermination,\u201d De Lima said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut even these cosmetic options will not free Duterte from the reality that sooner or later, he might actually be charged with the mass murder of civilians as a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute,\u201d the senator added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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