“Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla dares the International Criminal Court to "show us the pattern so that we can pick up from what their theory is.”
What Vera Files found
Remulla failed to mention that as early as September 2021, the Pre-Trial Chamber I, a judicial branch of the ICC, had listed five "considerations" in identifying the existence of systematic and widespread killings in the Duterte administration's anti-drug campaign. Last January, the chamber reiterated these five considerations in denying the claim of the Philippine government that there were no widespread and systematic killings in the drug war, and that the situation does not have sufficient...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jesus Crispin Remulla (Justice Secretary) made this claim around 27 January 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 7 February 2023, 11 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/9Ix2hpC1OBw?t=835
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