How long can BBM protect Duterte?

Nations surrender part of their sovereign rights whenever they enter into treaties and international statutes and accept certain limitations imposed by those treaties and statutes.

has put former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte well beyond the reach of the International Criminal Court at The Hague by rejecting its purported jurisdiction over Duterte's alleged extrajudicial drug killings in the Philippines. To allow the ICC to intervene in these cases would constitute an encroachment upon the sovereignty of the Philippine government, which is in control of its criminal justice system, Marcos officials said.

Presumably, the prosecution follows a standard course which results in the filing or non-filing of a criminal case, and the trial or release from ICC jurisdiction of the accused.It is not clear exactly what Marcos Jr. or the Congress will do to prevent an investigation of the crimes allegedly committed by Duterte and his subalterns. And it is not known whether the various foreign leaders Marcos Jr.

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