Philippines: ICC Hearing Gives Survivors of Duterte’s Drug War Hope By Ed Holt Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.

Philippines: ICC Hearing Gives Survivors of Duterte’s Drug War Hope By Ed Holt https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/03/philippines-icc-hearing-gives-survivors-of-dutertes-drug-war-hope/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Pakistans_Solar_Boom_to_Tide_Over_Middle_East_Energy_Crisis_Philippines_ICC_Hearing_Gives_Survivors_ BRATISLAVA, Mar 17 2026 (IPS) - Gito* had just arrived at his father’s house in Caloocan City in the Philippines on December 7, 2016, when three armed policemen burst into the home, grabbed his father, took him outside and shot him multiple times. Gito told IPS his father had put his hands up when the officers told him they had come to arrest him, but they opened fire anyway. Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.