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Updated July 1, 2021 at 4:42 PM ET
After years of a deadly counternarcotics campaign that has riven the Philippines, the International Criminal Court is a step closer to opening what international law experts say would be its first case bringing crimes against humanity charges in the context of a drug war.
On June 14, the last day of her nine-year term as the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda announced there was “a reasonable basis to believe that the crime against humanity of murder” had been committed in the war on drugs carried out under the government of President Rodrigo Duterte. Bensouda urged the court to open a full-scale investigation into the bloody crackdown between July 1, 2016, when Duterte took office, and March 16, 2019, when the Philippines’ withdrawal from the ICC took effect.
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