A high-profile senator in the Philippines has called for international intervention in the country’s gruesome drug war, which was initiated under President Rodrigo Duterte and has claimed thousands of lives since the start of his term in July. Leila de Lima, a prominent human-rights advocate and former Secretary of Justice, told the Guardian that deadly antidrug operations under Duterte could amount to crimes against humanity and should be investigated by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. “It [ICC] should start to think about investigating already or doing an inquiry into the killings as crimes against humanity,” she told the newspaper in an interview. De Lima, who has emerged as one of the President’s sole domestic critics, said Duterte’s public exhortations for alleged drug users and dealers to be killed had inspired lawlessness and vigilantism. “You cannot dismiss this sort of rhetoric as just a figure of speech or hyperbole because that’s not how the people on the ground have been interpreting the pronouncements of the President,” she said. The Senator has faced extreme and abusive fallout from her vocal opposition to the president’s tactics.
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