Duterte murders get new ICC interruptus look from Marcos Govt

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Jesus Crispin “Boying” Catibayan Remulla a Filipino lawyer, influencer, politician and cabinet secretary serving in the Ferdinand Marcos Administration since mid-2022 as Secretary of Justice, says he is now spearheading an investigation into the Duterte murders and in a peculiar statement also says the Philippines investigation does not overlap that of the International Criminal Court.

Duterte and Trump

 

Then President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump discuss matters during a bilateral meeting at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on 13 November 2017. Robinson Niñal jr./Malacanang Presidential photo

Duterte says publicly to the ICC, “You better hurry up because I will be dead soon.”

Video (trigger warning) of actual murders. ICC to issue warrants on Philippines EJKs

Past investigations by The RINJ Foundation into when the state endorses its own murders, in response to direct complaints by RINJ Women members in the Philippines indicate that not just Duterte but hundreds of alleged murderers are involved in the tens of thousands of EJK cases.

“What we charge here and what the International Criminal Court charges, if possible, do not overlap,” Secretary Remulla said last Monday, 18 November. This of course is a wrong minded statement and falls into the pattern of obfuscation the Philippines as projected for years.

“The ICC’s primary mandate is to prosecute individuals, not states where a state has refused or is unable to do its own prosecution of the matter. The Court investigates and prosecutes individuals accused of committing atrocity crimes within the territory of a state party or by a national of a state party, regardless of where the crime occurred. At the material time of the crimes, the Philippines was a member of the Court. Since then, the Philippines has left the Court and the Marcos government which has continued extrajudicial killings of persons the state dislikes, has not reinstated the Philippines membership in the ICC and adoption of the Rome Statute. It’s quite complicated where two dynasties feuded or occasionally cooperate to thwart international law as oppressive regimes,” explains RINJ Foundation regional coordinator, Karinna Angeles.

When asked by a perplexed media gaggle, ‘what would be covered by the investigation’, Mr. Remulla said, “Everything that can be covered. Of course, you are talking about several laws that will come into play. You have the Revised Penal Code and other special laws, and you have the Republic Act 9851, (Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity)” the Secretary of Justice responded.

In summary, Philippines Justice Secretary Remulla has confirmed recently and often that the Marcos government is specifically probing Duterte because new information has become available about the over 35,000 extrajudicial killings in the Philippines by the notorious Duterte Death Squads, some of which group’s claimed members FPM authors have met with over the years.

Watch, “You are free to kill” and so “police then dragged him into an alleyway and killed him.”

The top 12 alleged criminals accused in the International Criminal Court are as follows.

Top Criminals Named In Mass Murder ICC Case
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre
Philippine Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez
Former Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno
Police Superintendent Edilberto Leonardo
Senior Police Officer 4 Sanson “Sonny” Buenaventura
Police Superintendent Royina Garma
National Bureau of Investigation Director Dante Gierran
Solicitor General Jose Calida
Sen. Richard Gordon
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano

But on the face of the matter from a Manila perspective reports RINJ regional coordinator Karinna Angeles, “is that the Marcos government administration, which is in fact the Marcos dynasty, is in a war with the Duterte dynasty and some kind of weaponization of the justice department is ongoing against former President Duterte, because Ferdinand Marcos is now in power. Facebook now prioritizes content in this feud as a Biden favour to Marcos who like Donald Trump both of whom may need to serve out his prison time for convictions in the United States once his term in office has expired. Mr. Trump may face the same dilemma because he and Mr. Duterte are victims of a weaponized state justice system, although that matter is scheduled for review in early December,” said Ms. Angeles.

“Yes, our task force is doing that now. I was just talking to the head of the task force,” said Justice secretary Remulla to reporters.

“International humanitarian law is what we are looking at because it is the law that the ICC is studying, as well as the law that we have here. It’s the law of the ICC actually. It’s what they’re using right now,” Mr. Remulla added.

The ICC had announced plans for an investigation in February 2018 but suspended its work in November 2021 at the request of the Philippines’ government after Manila said it was undertaking its own review. Thereafter the matter has been back and forth with enough back-and-forth nonsense to fill a few chapters in a book or a TV crime series featuring a murderous incarnation of the Keystone Cops as families of the murdered women and children in the Philippines suffer loss and broken hearts amidst a litany of insincere government frivolity in what is one of the world’s most serious crimes of all time.

The outcome of the sacking of human rights in the Philippines is that the state-sponsored killings continue under Bong Bing Marcos

Crooked cops used Duterte’s “Kill them dead” decrees for other corrupt practices as well, which likely accounts for thousands of EJKs.

In other words, Duterte’s passionate love for his country and hatred for evildoers was exploited by a sector of the population of people accustomed to occupation and a form of apartheid who over a couple of centuries have developed an exploitive attitude for life. For example, Barangay officials and cops were accused by families of victims of killing persons to whom they owed money, and other such malfeasance, after red-tagging them or adding their names to lists of illegal drug users..

Watch unfettered video blow or on YouTube : Premeditated State-Sponsored Murder CCTV Manila Police murdering the poor in Barangay 19 Philippines

 

See also: Video of actual murders. ICC to issue warrants on Philippines EJKs

“The [past] deferral of the ICC investigation requested by the Philippines is not justified,” said Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan QC in fall 2023.

“Today, (Friday, 24 June 2022) I filed an application before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”) seeking authorisation for my Office to resume its investigation in the Situation in the Republic of the Philippines (“Philippines”),” said the  Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan QC. in a statement.

In Requiem:

Video: The Philippines Fallen includes mothers, fathers, children and innocent bystanders. Rodrigo Duterte’s “kill them dead” mantra spread well in a country that was already statistically infamous for its murder rate per capita. Thousands of freelancers working for cops, or off duty cops shot and killed pot smokers, hard drug users, gays, people with disabilities like walking with a limp, people who reported crimes done by officials, women and girls who reported rapes by cops and other officials, and anyone local officials did not like for any reason at all. The victims were killed by simply putting them on a list of drug users, or a “red tag list” of communists.

This is a story of a filthy dirty government that used extortion, murder and threats of imprisonment or disappearance and worse to carry out crimes with impunity.

Well over 32,000 murders were done by meagerly paid contract killers and vigilantes, hired assassins and Philippines cops in the entire time of Rodrigo Duterte’s reign of terror from the day he took office until probably days after he left.


ICC to seek an order to proceeed against Duterte Extrajudicial Killings

16 June 2021

The picture and its story: Seeking authorisation for my Office to resume its investigation in the Situation in the Republic of the Philippines, said the  Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan QC. in a statement released on Friday.

Download entire application.

By December 2018 Duterte’s bloody drug war had chocked up an estimated 27,832 extrajudicial killings.

Using data acquired by some of the biostatisticians now working with the Civil Society Partners against COVID-19 and using many of the same medical, coroners, morgues, mortuary and mortician sources used to collect cause-of-death information for epidemiology reports, a study was conducted at the end of 2018.

There had been 27,832 extrajudicial killings from the time of Duterte’s inauguration up to December of 2018.

Today that number is well over 32,000 EJKS

22.3-27 Daily killings already took place in the Philippines as a result of an already high murder rate.  Murders and occasional armed conflicts on a 9-year average to December 2018 ranged from 22.3-27 without and with armed conflicts and alleged military skirmishes with Communists and various “terrorists” (possibly political enemies including journalists, political opponents like Mayors, Barangay Captains and priests).

25 to 29.7 Extrajudicial violent deaths occurred daily in the Philippines as a result of state-personnel and state-directed-contractor extra judicial killings from the time of Duterte’s inauguration up to and including December 2018 when the study was completed.

Video below: ABS-CBN News shut down by Duterte for broadcasts like this one.

 

The heart ripping case of Erica “Angel Navales” Fernandez, one of thousands killed in the six-year Duterte murder spree.

Angel Navales (Born Erica Fernandez DOB 09/28/1999) was shot dead with a single bullet by one of two unidentified gunmen at Gumamela St. Barangay, Commonwealth, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines at or around 11:00 p.m. on 25 October 25, 2016. Her boyfriend, 21-year-old construction worker Jericho P. Camitan, was killed with five rounds.

Facebook Photo
Facebook image of Angel Navales in the school cafeteria recovered late October 2016. See full article.

Gone but never forgottenAngel Murdered in Manila, her Barbie Doll beside her in the dirt. “This is why we are so angry, and this is also why we cry,” says nurse Karinna Angeles who knew this child’s family from a previous tragedy. Photo source supplied. Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective Magazine

The Duterte Murders continue. And the murders continued. 17 August 2020, Zara Alvarez, a Negros Island-based Filipino human rights advocate, educator, paralegal and prominent social activist who predominantly campaigned against human rights violations which were witnessed during the administration of Rodrigo Duterte. She was truly much beloved human rights advocate who was gunned down as were others that week. Previous attempts on her life had failed. Roughly one dozen of her Negros Island group have been murdered.  Photo: Twitter.  Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective Magazine

Philippines woman victim and the US Marine Who Killed her. Philippines woman victim and the US Marine Who Killed her.
Photo Credit: Social Media Images in the public domain. Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective Magazine

The typical style of Duterte’s contract killers.

One of the shocks of Duterte’s murders was American tolerance of these crimes after Barrack Obama left office. People literally gagged when Joe Biden invited Rodrigo Duterte to a global Democracy forum.

“Rights groups on Thursday condemned US President Joe Biden for inviting President Duterte to attend his two-day Summit for Democracy, emphasizing that the Philippine Chief Executive’s six-year “reign of terror” hardly qualifies him to speak about democracy,” wrote a Manila newspaper on 10 December 2021.

Duterte Murders Alarm UN Humanitarians but Trump High Fives

Duterte Regime claimed it was not killing as a crime against humanity because drug addicts are not humanity.

Minister Vitaliano Aguirre calls drug addicts, ‘not-humanity’ and says it is therefore ‘OK’ to murder them. The comment adds to The RINJ Foundation’s complaint against the Duterte government of ‘crimes against humanity’ as set out in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The top 12 alleged criminals charged in the International Criminal Court are as follows.

Top Criminals Named In Mass Murder ICC Case
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre
Philippine Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez
Former Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno
Police Superintendent Edilberto Leonardo
Senior Police Officer 4 Sanson “Sonny” Buenaventura
Police Superintendent Royina Garma
National Bureau of Investigation Director Dante Gierran
Solicitor General Jose Calida
Sen. Richard Gordon
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano
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