MSEditorial It’s sovereign power, ICC Many have had their eyes and ears up when The Hague-based International Criminal Court granted its prosecutor’s request to reopen the investigation into Manila’s war on drugs during the incumbency of President--
The tribunal said, after examining submitted materials from the Philippine government, the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, and drug war victims, the collections of information “do not amount to tangible, concrete and progressive investigative steps in a way that would sufficiently mirror the Court’s investigation.”
In law, the sovereign is the one who exercises power without limitation and, as the English jurist William Blackstone said, the term sovereignty exercised by a sovereign power carries implications of autonomy and to have sovereign power is to be beyond the power of others to interfere.
The International Criminal Court is not part of the United Nations but is governed by the Rome Statute, the first permanent, treaty-based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. Earlier, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said the Philippines intends to appeal the resumption of the ICC’s inquiry into the country’s anti-illegal drugs campaign before the ICC Appeals Chamber.
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