MANILA, Philippines — “ICC [International Criminal Court] isn’t all about justice. ICC is about management.”
This was the comment of reelectionist Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa in the course of the senatorial face-off of GMA Information on Saturday when requested if the senatorial aspirants are in favor of the Philippine reinstating its membership within the ICC.
Previous to this, senatorial aspirant and former Bayan Muna consultant Teddy Casiño talked about Dela Rosa and mentioned that the justice system within the nation has double requirements. Dela Rosa was then requested to react to Casiño’s assertion.
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“Mabuti na lang, nakasuhan si Bato at si Duterte. Not less than kahit papano, might natakbuhan ’yung mga biktima (Good factor is that fees had been filed towards Bato and Duterte. Not less than, the victims had one thing to run into.),” Casiño mentioned in the identical face-off.
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“They’re about controlling all of the member nations of the ICC,” Dela Rosa added.
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The Philippines withdrew from the Rome Statute in 2018 shortly after the ICC launched a probe into the human-rights violations being dedicated throughout former President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug struggle marketing campaign.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. beforehand mentioned that he won’t enable ICC to conduct probes on the nation’s struggle on medication.
Dela Rosa was beforehand named by the ICC as one of many 5 suspects behind the bloody drug struggle underneath the previous administration of Duterte that claimed hundreds of lives.
In December, the Home of Representatives quad committee, probing unlawful medication and struggle on medication, really useful submitting of crimes towards humanity complaints towards Duterte, Dela Rosa, Sen. Bong Go, and different allies for his or her position within the extrajudicial killings within the drug struggle.
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