MANILA, Sept 20 (AFP): The main architect of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war said Monday he would rather be "convicted and even hanged" by a Filipino court than a foreign one for his role in the deadly crackdown.
Ronald Dela Rosa, the first police chief to enforce Duterte's anti-narcotics campaign in 2016, made the comments days after the International Criminal Court authorised a full-blown probe into the controversial policy.
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