Since 2016, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has led to thousands of killings. The International Criminal Court is now calling for an investigation of those deaths as war crimes. Ashley Westerman reports that victims’ families are hoping for justice, and the government has pledged not to cooperate.
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