ANY charge filed against President Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court (ICC) won’t prosper, a lawmaker said Thursday.

Rep. Harry Roque of Kabayan party-list, an international law export, made the stance in connection with the plan of the lawyers of self-confessed “Davao Death Squad” hit man Edgar Matobato to charge Duterte before the ICC for ordering mass killings. Matobato has claimed he was involved in brutally killing about 1,000 people when Duterte was still mayor of Davao City.

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