Philippines’ ex-president Rodrigo Duterte to face trial for crimes against humanity | ICC judges say there are substantial grounds to believe Duterte guided anti-drugs crackdown that killed thousands
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Trollimperator@reddit
Just waiting for the USA to do any of this.
But lets face it, the USA never gonna put someone rich and mighty into prison.
The Philippines are ranked 97 in the Rule of Law Index. Behind China, behind India, behind Tailand or Brazil. And they think, their leaders should be held accountable.
SendCatsNoDogs@reddit
The only reason why Duterte is at the ICC is because his political opponents saw an easy way to get rid of him.
fubo@reddit
Sam Bankman-Fried, Bernie Madoff, John Kapoor, and "El Chapo" Guzman disagree with you. The US is fully capable of finding rich people guilty of charges including fraud, bribery, and narcotics smuggling.
SpontaneousFlame@reddit
Apart from Kapoor, those people lost all their money when their scams were exposed or when they were betrayed.
amorangi@reddit
Those people got punished because they harmed rich people.
Socraman@reddit
Do you think it's different for Duterte?
amorangi@reddit
I was talking about the "justice" system in USA, as in it only works there if it affects rich people. Philippines is different altogether.
Socraman@reddit
I know. I meant that it's not different in the Philippines. Duterte is under trial because his political enemies threw him under the bus for their own benefit, not because they care about poor people getting killed.
mammogrammar@reddit
You had me going in the first half.
Trollimperator@reddit
Jea right, thats why half the higher society hang out with Epstein and noone is anywhere close to jail. Because the USA is doing equal laws...
DrawingDramatic1641@reddit
Behind india is insane Cuz in india anyone above 1 million dollar never goes in jail unless you are in opposition party
Besmirching_Badger@reddit
I'm no fan of Duterte, but really?
Technically it probably crosses the threshold i guess, but the issue is the number of things that also cross the threshold that are just ignored across the world. This feels much more appropriately something to be dealt with internally within the phillipines.
Has the rome statute ever previously been used against someone committing said crimes against their own people in a similar context? Normally it relates to targetting another peoples and can at least be framed as underpinned by prejudice
Maybe it's an issue of funding and politics, but if the ICC wants to be taken seriously then they really need to start throwing out similar investigations/ charges into anyone and everyone that breaches the rome statute. This bizarre selectivity is the problem that undermines everything.
Professional-Syrup-0@reddit
The Yugoslavian tribunal, the U.S. even had judges on that.