THE militant Makabayan bloc yesterday filed a resolution urging the administration of President Marcos Jr. to cooperate with the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the alleged crimes against humanity committed in the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs.
The Makabayan bloc, led by Rep. France Castro (PL, ACT), filed House Resolution No. 1393 after former president Rodrigo Duterte’s admission, in a television interview, that he used intelligence funds to kill people.
“With former President Rodrigo Duterte’s televised admission of ordering extrajudicial killings and financing them with his confidential and intelligence funds, it is imperative that we allow the ICC to investigate his crimes,” Castro said.
“We urge the House leadership to support and co-author this resolution to show that we do not tolerate EJKs and that we are working for justice to be served to his victims and their families.”
Castro said Duterte’s admission that he ordered and financed EJKs using his CIF “is very strong evidence indeed,” and stressed: “Justice is long overdue and should not be further delayed.”
“Now therefore, be it resolved, that the House of Representatives, through this Resolution, express its sense urging the Philippine government to cooperate with the investigation of the International Criminal Court on the alleged crime against humanity committed in the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs campaign,” it said.
The Magdalo group, in a statement shared by former senator Antonio Trillanes, also earlier urged the President to allow the ICC probe into the alleged EJKs during the Duterte administration.
