Charge Rodrigo Duterte With Mass Murder, Lawyer Tells The Hague<br />"The basic material hallmarks or elements in the extrajudicial executions in the Davao Death Squad in Davao City<br />and in the continued extrajudicial executions after President Duterte became the president are too numerous and too obvious to escape scant attention," the complaint says.<br />The lawyer, Jude Josue Sabio, said in a 77-page complaint<br />that Mr. Duterte was the "mastermind" of a campaign that has killed more than 9,400 people, mostly poor young men, since 1988, when Mr. Duterte was first elected mayor of Davao City in the southern Philippines.<br />"During the time that he was the mayor of Davao City, President Duterte never even lifted a finger<br />to investigate the thousand killings undertaken under the Davao Death Squad," the complaint says.<br />By RICHARD C. PADDOCKAPRIL 24, 2017<br />JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Filipino lawyer asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday to charge President Rodrigo Duterte<br />and 11 other Philippine officials with mass murder and crimes against humanity in the killings of thousands of people over three decades.<br />"The situation in the Philippines reveals a terrifying, gruesome<br />and disastrous continuing commission of extrajudicial executions or mass murder from the time President Duterte was the mayor of Davao City," the complaint says.
