Law.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to conduct
preliminary investigation against President Duterte’s war on drugs; Duterte
retaliates by saying that it will have the members of ICC arrested in the
Philippines if it continues to investigate the government’s anti-illegal drug
campaign (source: ABS-CBN News). As of March 20, 2018, 4,075 individuals have
died out 91,704 anti-illegal drug campaign operations in the Philippines (source: PDEA).
I would say that ICC should not intervene with the Philippines
government, first, Philippines is a sovereign country, we have our own
government; we have a judicial system to investigate matters that violate the
law. In my opinion, ICC should focus on countries which have no stable judicial
system (less developed countries). If the President of the Philippines has
committed a crime, it should not be the ICC to decide if the president is
guilty or not; the people of the Philippines should decide through the
intervention of the local justice system, since the crime was committed against the
Filipinos.
Philippines judicial system is perfectly functioning, we
have cases more than drug killings that our judicial system has resolved. Our
judiciary has jailed powerful people: presidents; senators; congressman.
The people of the Philippines will surely appreciate ICC’s
thoughtfulness with regards to human rights of the Filipinos, but if the thoughts
threatens the sovereignty of the country, by being controlling rather suggestive,
and makes the country incompetent in the eyes of other nation; then ICC should
start thinking if what they are doing is helpful to the world.
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