MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte should stop making public comments about the case of her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, before the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Vice President Sara Duterte should stop making public comments about the case of her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and leave it to their lawyers instead, a lawyer accredited by the court said on Sunday.
The younger Duterte over the weekend questioned the widely reported figure of 30,000 drug war deaths during her father’s administration, saying the prosecution’s claims were far from the 181 pieces of evidence submitted to the ICC.
The former president is facing the charge of crime against humanity of murder in relation to his war on drugs.
“It will do well for the Vice President to leave to her father’s lawyers to do the talking on the merits of the ICC case instead of spouting foul words that only boomerang and apply to her,” ICC-accredited lawyer Joel Butuyan told the Inquirer.
“The ICC case is not about proving the murder of 30,000 Filipinos but about the decision by her father in ordering police forces to use extrajudicial killing as a solution to the illegal drugs problem,” he said.
