MANILA: A lawyer for confessed Davao Death Squad (DDS) hit man Edgar Matobato filed crimes against humanity charges against President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 of his allies in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague over the killings of suspected criminals when he was mayor of Davao City, as well as thousands of drug suspects in his brutal war on drugs.
In a 77-page complaint submitted to the ICC, lawyer Jude Josue Sabio cited “continuing mass murder” in the Philippines, as shown by the thousands of deaths in Duterte’s campaign against crime and illegal drugs in Davao City, which he rolled out on a national scale after becoming President of the Philippines.
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