Duterte's admissions to hurt his defense
(UPDATE) FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte will have trouble defending himself before the International Criminal Court (ICC) because his many public admissions directly implicate him in the extrajudicial killings that marked his bloody war on drugs, former Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio said Tuesday.
'He has made multiple public admissions, including statements about ordering extrajudicial killings and taking full responsibility for them. These will all be used in court,' Carpio said.
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