Charge Rodrigo Duterte With Mass Murder, Lawyer Tells The Hague
"The basic material hallmarks or elements in the extrajudicial executions in the Davao Death Squad in Davao City
and in the continued extrajudicial executions after President Duterte became the president are too numerous and too obvious to escape scant attention," the complaint says.
The lawyer, Jude Josue Sabio, said in a 77-page complaint
that Mr. Duterte was the "mastermind" of a campaign that has killed more than 9,400 people, mostly poor young men, since 1988, when Mr. Duterte was first elected mayor of Davao City in the southern Philippines.
"During the time that he was the mayor of Davao City, President Duterte never even lifted a finger
to investigate the thousand killings undertaken under the Davao Death Squad," the complaint says.
By RICHARD C. PADDOCKAPRIL 24, 2017
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Filipino lawyer asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday to charge President Rodrigo Duterte
and 11 other Philippine officials with mass murder and crimes against humanity in the killings of thousands of people over three decades.
"The situation in the Philippines reveals a terrifying, gruesome
and disastrous continuing commission of extrajudicial executions or mass murder from the time President Duterte was the mayor of Davao City," the complaint says.