“If there’s anybody who should go to prison, it should not be the police nor the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, it should be me,” President Rodrigo Duterte says.
. I assume full responsibility,” the President said in a speech during an inauguration in Palawan on Thursday.“If there’s anybody who should go to prison, it should not be the police nor the PDEA , it should be me,” he added.In September, the
authorized the full investigation into the Duterte administration’s drug war, including the extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by the Davao Death Squad when Duterte was the mayor of the city.On Thursday, Duterte reiterated that he would not cooperate with the proceedings, arguing that the ICC has no jurisdiction over the Philippines following the country’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the court.
Duterte also said he wants to deliver a speech before The Hague without necessarily submitting himself to prosecution. He added that if “worse comes to worst", he wants Senator Leila de Lima, one of his staunchest critics, to be the first witness if he would be put into trial.
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