Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte says goodbye to successor President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr after the departure honors at the Malacanang Palace on June 30, 2022. King Rodriguez, Presidential Photo

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1713171507238171271996435620220630-duterte-departure-honors-MNIB-65.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span contenteditable="true" id="isPasted">Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte says goodbye to successor President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr after the departure honors at the Malacanang Palace on June 30, 2022. <em>King Rodriguez, Presidential Photo/File</em></span></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — President Ferdinand Marcos said Monday he would not hand his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court, which is investigating his deadly drug war.</p><p>Thousands of people have been killed in the anti-narcotics campaign started by Duterte in 2016 and continued under Marcos.</p><p>Asked Monday if he would hand Duterte -- who has accused him of being a drug addict -- to the ICC if it issued a warrant for his arrest, Marcos said &quot;no&quot;.</p><p>&quot;We don&#x27;t recognize the warrant that they will send to us. That&#x27;s a no,&quot; he said at a forum with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2OK1sHAjcUs?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>&quot;We are well within international law when we take the position of not recognizing the jurisdiction of the ICC in the Philippines,&quot; Marcos said.</p><p>Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC in 2019 after the Hague-based tribunal started probing allegations of human rights abuses committed during his drug war.</p><p>It launched a formal inquiry into Duterte&#x27;s crackdown in September 2021, only to suspend it two months later after Manila said it was re-examining several hundred cases of drug operations that led to deaths at the hands of police, hitmen and vigilantes.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/war-on-drugs">War on Drugs</a></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/2/12/-we-are-okay-sara-duterte-says-no-problems-with-marcos-2319">&#x27;We are okay&#x27;: Sara Duterte says no problems with Marcos</a></div><p>The ICC&#x27;s chief prosecutor later asked to reopen the inquiry, and pre-trial judges at the court eventually gave the green light in late January 2023 -- a decision that Manila appealed shortly afterward and lost.</p><p>More than 6,000 people were killed in anti-drug operations under Duterte, according to official data released by the Philippines. ICC prosecutors estimate the death toll at between 12,000 and 30,000.</p><p>Marcos has repeatedly ruled out rejoining the court and insisted it does not have jurisdiction in the country because there is a functioning judicial system.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>FROM THE ARCHIVES</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pZrIO-JKod4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>Relations between the Marcos and Duterte families have deteriorated in the past two years.</p><p>Marcos, the son and namesake of the country&#x27;s former dictator, won the 2022 presidential election by a landslide following a massive social media misinformation campaign whitewashing his family&#x27;s history.</p><p>His vice presidential running mate Sara Duterte, the daughter of the former president, helped him win vital support from her family&#x27;s home island of Mindanao.</p><p>In recent months there has been a very public falling out between the families as they begin to shore up their rival support bases and secure key positions ahead of the mid-term elections in 2025 and presidential elections in 2028.</p>

<p>President Ferdinand Marcos said Monday he would not hand his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court, which is investigating his deadly drug war.</p>

President Ferdinand Marcos said Monday he would not hand his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court, which is investigating his deadly drug war.

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Marcos says will not hand Duterte to ICC over drug war

Marcos says will not hand Duterte to ICC over drug war

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