The International Criminal Court (ICC) last week reopened its inquiry on the Duterte drug war after pausing it in November 2021, on Manila’s assurance that it was reexamining hundreds of cases of deadly drug operations involving the police and government agents. With the previous administration admitting to over 6,000 killings in violent drug raids, government officials are now in a mad scramble to block the ICC probe. The Hague-based tribunal, which is considered a “court of
Of all the islands in the Philippines I have been to—from Itbayat to Sibutu—Sibuyan Island in Romblon is one of the most memorable, as it is one of the most beautiful. My first visit to the island—located at the very heart of our archipelago—was in 2008, back when I was a medical student who was obsessed with climbing mountains (I still am), and back when it was the dream of every mountaineer to visit Sibuyan to climb Mount Guiting-Guiting (it still is). Joining a group of mountaineers, I took the 16-hour overnight Ro-Ro from Batangas Pier to Sibuyan via Odiongan. A
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