Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was "pivotal" in the murder of thousands of people during his rule, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday (February 23), as they pushed for his trial to go ahead. The prosecutors at the

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was "pivotal" in the murder of thousands of people during his rule, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday (February 23), as they pushed for his trial to go ahead. The prosecutors at the  facebook.com


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