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De Lima: Better to wait for arrest warrants, results of ICC probe on drug war 

Published Jul 29, 2024 09:52 am

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  • Former senator Leila de Lima highlighted on Monday, July 29 the progress of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation on the previous Duterte administration's bloody war on illegal drugs. 

20240606_092557.jpgSenator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (Facebook)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former senator Leila de Lima highlighted on Monday, July 29 the progress of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation on the previous Duterte administration's bloody war on illegal drugs. 

De Lima brought this up during the House Committee on Human Rights' hearing in aid of legislation on the issue, which she attended as a resource person. 

"We can conclude that the investigation and prosecution of the drug war killings by local authorities is practically non-existent," she told the congressmen. 

"There is no indication also, I must say this, that the Marcos government would launch a large-scale effort anytime soon to go after the perpetrators, let alone the masterminds of the drug war killings," noted De Lima. 

"That's why you cannot blame me if I say, that we are actually better off waiting for the results of the ICC's OTP (Office of the Prosecutor) investigation, which is light-years ahead of our local investigation as least as regards the accountability of the high-ranking officials," she said. 

ICC has implicated both former president Rodrigo Duterte and former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa to the killings. 

“We fervently await the application by the OTP and the issuance by the ICC pre-trial chamber of warrants of arrest, hopefully within the year,” De Lima said. 

The Liberal Party (LP) member further spoke of her frustration on the apparent failure of local authorities to address the extra judicial killings (EJKs).

 

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"Out of the more than 20,000 killed in police and vigilante operations, only 16 cases were filed with the public prosecutors or the courts, or roughly 0.08 percent. This is based on conservative estimate 20,000 killed that was already admitted by the Malacañang under Duterte in its 2016 report," she said. 

"This does not yet include those killed from 2018 to 2022. As far as I know the DOJ has no pronouncement on whether it will conduct further Investigations on the remaining 99.92 percent of drug war killing," De Lima added. 

She said the case is the same with the PNP and "the former president himself", referring to Duterte.

 

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