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Philippine senator vows to fight International Criminal Court order to arrest him over killings

The Independent·Jim Gomez·21 days ago
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A Philippine senator who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for an alleged crime against humanity said Tuesday he will fight any attempt to send him to the global tribunal for prosecution, adding he never condoned extrajudicial killings when he led the country's police force. The ICC in The Hague unsealed Monday an arrest warrant for Sen. Ronald dela Rosa, a former national police chief who first enforced then- President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drugs crackdowns that left thousands of mostly petty suspects dead. Originally issued in November, the warrant charges dela Rosa with the crime against humanity of murder of “no less than 32 persons” allegedly committed between July 2016 and the end of April 2018 in the Philippines. “If I have something to answer for, I will face those in our local courts and not before foreigners,” dela Rosa told reporters in the Senate , which took him into “protective custody” Monday when he reappeared after months of absence.…

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