Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte took full responsibility for the bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of people, but maintained he will never be tried by an international court and would only face a Philippine court and a Philippine judge.
The Philippines has come under pressure from the United Nations to investigate allegations of systematic murders of drug suspects, and the International Criminal Court recently announced it would investigate Duterte’s anti-drug campaign. More than 6,000 people have been killed by police in the crackdown, but police have denied involvement.
Duterte said, “I will repeat what I have said before: If you destroy my country and you destroy the young people by feeding them with drugs, you destroy the future. If you destroy the country, I will kill you.”
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