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File photo: Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (Picture credit: AP)
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been charged with 3 counts of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC), successful transportation with his deadly warfare connected drugs, officials announced Monday.
According to BBC, the 80-year-old, presently successful ICC custody successful The Hague, is accused of being criminally liable for dozens of murders carried retired by others, including police, during his campaigns arsenic some politician and president.The ICC’s complaint sheet, heavy redacted and dated July 4, was made nationalist connected Monday. Count 1 alleges Duterte’s engagement arsenic an “indirect co-perpetrator” successful 19 killings successful Davao City betwixt 2013 and 2016, erstwhile helium was mayor, arsenic per quality bureau AFP. The 2nd complaint relates to 14 murders of alleged “high-value targets” crossed the state betwixt 2016 and 2017 during his presidency. The 3rd number concerns the execution and attempted execution of 45 radical successful colony clearance operations betwixt 2016 and 2022.ICC prosecutors stated that Duterte and his alleged co-perpetrators “shared a communal program oregon statement to ‘neutralise’ alleged criminals successful the Philippines (including those perceived oregon alleged to beryllium associated with cause use, merchantability oregon production) done convulsive crimes including murder”.
They added that the standard of victimisation was importantly greater, noting that killings were “perpetrated consistently passim the charged period”.Duterte, who has ne'er apologised for the crackdown that activists accidental whitethorn person killed tens of thousands, claimed the run was intended to escaped the state of thoroughfare crime, arsenic per the BBC. He was arrested successful Manila connected March 11 and flown to the Netherlands, wherever helium has been held astatine the ICC’s Scheveningen detention unit. His lawyer, Nicholas Kaufman, has argued that Duterte is unfit to basal proceedings owed to “cognitive impairment successful aggregate domains” and has requested the proceedings beryllium postponed indefinitely.Despite being successful detention, Duterte was re-elected politician of Davao successful May, with his lad Sebastian continuing arsenic acting mayor. Supporters of Duterte person criticised the ICC’s case, suggesting it is politically motivated by the existent President, Ferdinand Marcos, who has antecedently clashed with the Duterte family.Rodrigo Duterte is the archetypal Asian erstwhile caput of authorities to beryllium indicted by the ICC and the archetypal to beryllium flown to The Hague successful implicit 3 years.
