Few saw it coming. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest for alleged crimes against humanity under the aegis of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has sent shockwaves across the Southeast Asian nation and worldwide. After decades of political impunity over allegations of overseeing tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings under his scorched-earth drug war, the […]
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