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DRUG WAR: Duterte calls bluff of ICC, says Int’l court can’t stop him
As the death toll of President Rodrigo Duterte‘s anti-drug war campaign surpasses the 8,000 mark, the defiant Filipino leader says he would not be intimidated by the prospect of the International Criminal Court (ICC) putting him on trial over his bloody war on drugs.
Duterte also vowed that his anti-drug war campaign will continue and will be ‘brutal’ and also noted that if lives of law enforcers are in danger that they should shoot the suspect.
“I will not be intimidated and I shall not be stopped just by what? International Criminal Court? Impeachment? If that is part of my destiny, it is my destiny to go,” Duterte told reporters on Sunday, shortly before leaving for Myanmar.
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“The drive against corruption, criminality and drugs will resume and it will continue and it will be brutal,” he said.
Duterte also averred that he will continue his war on drugs until it reaches its logical end; “I will not be, for a moment, be out of focus on that. I rose on what I promised and I will fall on that.”
Since Duterte assumed office on the 30th of June last year, More than 8,000 people have died with a third of the fatalities killed in raids and sting operations by police who say they acted in self-defence, while the rest were killed by unknown gunmen.
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