Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla on Saturday insisted that they would investigate the thousands of killings under the Rodrigo Duterte administration’s war on drugs on its own.
Remulla issued the remark after the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights said that the prosecution of perpetrators behind the killings in the war on drugsHannah Neumann, vice-chairperson of the subcommittee, said the International Criminal Court's support would ensure that the 6,000 killings would be "investigated properly.”
Neumann added that ICC involvement would help the victims' families and witnesses have confidence that there would be no harassment and intimidation "by the very same people who killed their loved ones.”In 2018, then-President Rodrigo Duterte , with the withdrawal taking effect in 2019 after the ICC began a preliminary probe into the allegations of state-sanctioned killings in his war on drugs.into Duterte's deadly drug war, insisting the tribunal had no jurisdiction.
Officially, 6,181 people were killed in Duterte's drug war but rights groups say that up to 30,000 may have been killed.
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