Lawyers for ‘drug war’ victims tell ICC prosecutor to continue probe

File — Police officers investigate an alleged drug dealer killed by an unidentified gunman in Manila.

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MANILA, Philippines — Lawyers for families of those killed during the course of President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs” are earnestly asking the International Criminal Court prosecutor to continue its investigation into the campaign against illegal drugs.

This, after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced that they are temporarily suspending their probe into the “drug war” following a request by the Philippines through its Ambassador to the Netherlands, Eduardo Malaya, who said that the government is thoroughly investigating all reported deaths during anti-narcotic operations in the country.

But for the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, which represents the kin of “drug war” victims, these domestic remedies are “utterly ineffective” as drug-related killings, imprisonment of poor Filipinos on “questionable” charges, and human rights violations supposedly continue.

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