It will be up to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to assess the recommendation of the House Quad Committee (QuadComm) to file charges against former President Rodrigo Duterte and others over the past administration’s war on drugs, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Thursday.
This came after the QuadComm recommended the filing of charges against Duterte, Senators Ronald Bato dela Rosa and Bong Go for alleged violation of the the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity.
“The DOJ will look at it and see if there are— if it is time to file cases, what cases to file, how to produce the evidence, and we will need to actually build the case up,” Marcos said in an ambush interview
“So titingnan pa ‘yan. Marami pa. Kailangan pa i-assess nang mabuti kung ano yung maaaring maging kaso, tama ba yung direksyon ng rekomendasyon ng committees from House,” he added.
[So it will still be looked into .. it needs to be assessed thoroughly … what will be the cases to be filed, if the House recommendations are in the right direction.]
The DOJ earlier formed a task force to investigate extrajudicial killings in the drug war under the Duterte administration. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News
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