ICC drug war probe a 'major step to justice' — groups

MANILA, Philippines — The move of the International Criminal Court to open a full probe into President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-narcotics campaign gives survivors and victims’ families hope that justice could be attained, groups said on Thursday.

Judges of the Hague-based court said there is reasonable basis to believe that Duterte’s “war on drugs”—in which tens of thousands have died—resembled an illegitimate and systematic attack on civilians.

In a joint statement, the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers and Rise Up for Life and for Rights—an organization of relatives of those killed in the “drug war”—called ICC’s decision to investigate a “major step to justice.”

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