TODAY'S EDITORIAL: ICC should stand down, give way to local courts
LOVE him or hate him, former president Rodrigo Duterte should not be investigated by the International Criminal Court for the alleged extrajudicial killings during his term. If at all, the case should be handled by Philippine courts, which, as mentioned in a previous editorial, are already hearing 52 cases involving 154 police officers charged with crimes related to the previous administration's war on illegal drugs. Two have already been convicted.
' He added that, as 'chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs during the whole Duterte administration, I have seen the gravity of the drug problem firsthand. My position gave me privileged access to all information on the real situation.'He is one of the 18 lawmakers supporting House Resolution 780, which was filed last week by Deputy House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, herself a former president.
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