Rodrigo Duterte remark he funded Davao slays sent to ICC
MANILA, Philippines — Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s admission that he had bankrolled extrajudicial killings while mayor of Davao City should convince President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to let the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursue its investigation against his predecessor, the Magdalo group said on Monday. The group led by former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV pointed out that Duterte himself disclosed in a television interview last week that he had spent his intelligence funds to carry out killings in Davao City while he was mayor. The vigilante-style executions were said to be the handiwork of the dreaded Davao Death Squad or DDS. “My intelligence funds, I used it to buy. I had all of them killed. That’s why Davao is like that. Your companions, I really had them killed. That’s the truth,” Duterte said in his TV show on SMNI Network on Oct. 10. At that time, he was talking to his spiritual adviser, Apollo Quiboloy, about the request of his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, for confidential funds. The video of his full interview was taken down from SMNI’s YouTube channel on Oct. 12. “We, the Magdalo group, are urging the Marcos administration to allow the ICC investigators into the country in order to make… Duterte accountable for his crimes against humanity,” Magdalo said. “Truly, justice [for the victims and their families] is long overdue.” According to Trillanes, they have already sent a copy of the TV footage to the ICC as additional evidence against the former president. “This is truly an open-and-shut case,” he posted on X (formerly Twitter). ‘Original filers’ “Being the original filers of the ICC case in 2017, we have witnessed and documented the barbaric actions of the past administration, as well as the trauma and hardships that the thousands of victims and their families have suffered,” Magdalo said. As a senator in June 2017, Trillanes and then Magdalo party list Rep. Gary Alejano filed a supplemental communication with the ICC, asking it to step in and investigate Duterte. This was a month after lawyer Jude Josue Sabio asked the international tribunal based in The Hague to charge the then president and 11 other politicians and government officials with mass murder and crimes against humanity over the thousands of deaths that resulted from the government’s bloody war on drugs. In March 2018, Duterte ordered the country’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute after ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced
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