Philippine leader calls for abandoning Int'l Criminal Court

[demmiblue]

Source: ABC News/AP

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte asked governments on Sunday to abandon the International Criminal Court, saying the world tribunal — where he is facing a possible complaint for the thousands of killings of drug suspects under his crackdown — is "rude."

Although the Philippine Senate has ratified the Rome Statute that established the ICC, Duterte said in a speech that the treaty was never enforced in the country because it was not published in the government journal, the official gazette, as required by law.

Due to what he said was that flaw, Duterte said the international court can never have jurisdiction over him, "not in a million years."

Last month, an ICC prosecutor announced she was opening a preliminary examination into a complaint by a Filipino lawyer of suspected extrajudicial killings under Duterte's anti-drug campaign, which could amount to crimes against humanity.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Goodness. Is he calling it a WITCH HUNT too?????

Odd how they think the law should never apply to them.

[MrModerate]

2. The ICC gunning for him . . .

Would at least keep Duterte at home in the Philippines. That's something.

[orangecrush]

3. Trump wants to execute drug dealers now

my assumption is at first legally.

In the Phillipines, many of those executed in the street are kids.