“No one should have to wait for five years for justice to be served. Like I said in 2017… no victim of state violence should have to feel that the law is not behind them,” Hontiveros told the Inquirer on Tuesday. “The toxic culture of impunity of the previous administration must stop pervading our society.”
“We continue to demand a full accounting of the extrajudicial killings under the previous administration. Glimmers of hope are welcome but not enough when the system punishes only couriers and foot soldiers,” Hontiveros said.The opposition lawmaker renewed her call for the Marcos administration to let the ICC look into the drug war killings where most of the fatalities were from the poor.
“International cooperation can only expedite justice for thousands of Filipinos. ICC’s help must be welcome and necessary,” she added.“Keep in mind that this is just the second murder conviction out of thousands of such cases,” HRW said in a statement sent to reporters by its Asia division researcher, Carlos Conde.While the group was “glad” about Monday’s court decision, the conviction was an argument for—not against—the ICC probe, it said.
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