Senate minority bloc wants PH to cooperate in ICC’s war on drugs probe

The Senate minority bloc wants the Philippine government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s investigation on the country’s war on drugs. | DFernandezINQ

Senator Risa Hontiveros, the other minority bloc member, also hoped President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would adhere to international law.

“The ICC is filling a long-standing vacuum in the investigation of the state-sponsored ‘tokhang,'” she said. “This increased international participation also makes it only appropriate for the Philippine [government] to rejoin as a state party to the Rome Statute as soon as possible,” she said.Asserting that she will “never forget” extra-judicial killing victims, Hontiveros stressed that “there is overwhelming evidence that the war on drugs carried out widespread and systematic violations of human rights.

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