INTERNATIONAL bodies can exercise motu proprio jurisdiction in looking into alleged extrajudicial killings in the country if the government fails to put a stop to the summary executions.

Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chairman Jose Luis Martin Gascon, during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights in a spate of drug-related killings in the country, said the International Criminal Court (ICC) could assume jurisdiction even without a complaint about the supposed incidents of extrajudicial killings.