New panel mulled in drug war probe

Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said the government could create an “independent commission” to investigate the thousands of drug war killings during the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte just to prove to the International Criminal Court (ICC) that the country’s justice system was working and the ICC should stop its own probe.

If the government proceeds with its own investigations and judicial processes, such mode of inquiry into the alleged extrajudicial killings can be explored, Guevarra said.