Faced with the buildings of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the supporters of Rodrigo Duterte brandish Filipino flags and portraits of their mentor ” freedom ! »». The former president of the archipelago, transferred by Manila to the Hague on Tuesday, March 11, appeared, for the first time, Friday, before the court judges. Opposite, a counterattack brought together a handful of people shouting: ” Justice ! »»brandishing other portraits, those of their loved ones who fell under the bullets during the “war against drugs” of the duterte regime. According to the NGOs, it made several tens of thousands of deaths.
The ICC prosecutor’s arrest warrant specifies that Rodrigo Duterte created Davao Death Squad, a “death squad”, before becoming President of the Philippines (2016-2022) and making his war against drugs a state policy. Rodrigo Duterte would then have given the license to kill anyone with a link with drug trafficking – in fact, often the weakest, drug addicts and small dealers. The former leader must now answer for crimes against humanity for these murders.
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