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PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte urged other governments yesterday to abandon the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling the world tribunal “rude.”
“I will convince everybody now who is under the treaty at ICC: ‘Get out, get out, it’s rude’,” said the Philippine leader who faces a possible complaint there.
Although the Philippine Senate has ratified the Rome Statute that established the ICC, President Duterte insists that the treaty was never enforced in his country because it was not published in the government journal, as required by law.
As a result, the international court can never have jurisdiction over him — “not in a million years.”
ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced last month that she was opening a preliminary examination into a complaint of suspected extrajudicial killings under Mr Duterte’s anti-drug campaign.
The ICC can intervene only when a state is unable or unwilling to carry out an investigation and prosecute perpetrators of genocide, aggression and war atrocities.
