The Philippines will cooperate if Interpol is requested by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants in connection with its probe into former president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody ‘war on drugs.’
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00:00The Philippines will cooperate if Interpol is requested by the International Criminal
00:04Court to issue arrest warrants in connection with its probe into former President Rodrigo
00:09Duterte's bloody war on drugs.
00:11The ICC opens an investigation into possible crimes against humanity due to thousands of
00:17people killed in Duterte's anti-drugs crackdown in 2016.
00:21Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin says, quote, if the ICC makes a move and courses the move
00:27through the Interpol, and the Interpol makes the request to us for the arrest of delivery
00:31of the custody of a person subject to ICC jurisdiction, we will respond favorably or
00:36positively to the Interpol request.
00:39Duterte and the police denied the activists' claim of systematic executions and cover-ups,
00:43saying drug suspects were killed in self-defense.
00:47In 2019, Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC's founding treaty after the court
00:51began investigating the killings, and the country refused to cooperate with the investigation
00:56until recently.