FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte has shrugged off the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to proceed with the investigation of his bloody campaign against drugs, his former spokesman said Friday.In a press statement on his Facebook page, Harry Roque said Duterte “reiterates his position that he would never allow foreigners to sit in judgment of him as long as Philippine courts are willing and able to do so.”Duterte maintains that submitting himself to the legal jurisdiction of any foreign body “is an insult to the competence and impartiality of our functioning criminal justice system,” Roque said.The former spokesman said he believes that the ICC probe is a waste of time and resources and called on the court to “focus instead on the war crimes and crimes against humanity that are actually happening in places like Ukraine and some African countries.”A former human rights lawyer…
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