The previous president of the Philippines is about to face trial for Crimes Towards Humanity within the Hague.
Rodrigo Duterte has been linked to hundreds of extra-judicial killings throughout his controversial ‘struggle on medicine’.
It is thought-about a win for the Worldwide Legal Court docket – because it’s uncommon for such a excessive profile determine to be dropped at justice.
However home politics might have performed a job in his arrest – Duterte had made an enemy of the sitting President.
So is justice being served? or is worldwide legislation being weaponised for political achieve?
And what does this imply for different highly effective figures needed by the ICC?
Presenter: James Bays
Company:
Kristina Conti – Secretary Common of the Nationwide Union of Peoples’ Attorneys.
Luis Moreno Ocampo – Former Chief Prosecutor on the Worldwide Legal Court docket.
Richard Heydarian – Senior Lecturer in Worldwide Affairs on the College of the Philippines and writer of ‘The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt in opposition to Elite Democracy’.
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