Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced Wednesday that his country is withdrawing its ratification of the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, where he is facing a possible complaint over thousands of suspects killed in his anti-drug crackdown. Thousands of mostly poor drug suspects have been killed under Duterte's drug crackdown. The president renewed his verbal attacks against UN human rights officials who have expressed alarm over the massive killings. He said the UN expert on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard, had without any proof "pictured me as a ruthless violator of human rights" who was directly responsible for homicide. 'Psychiatric evaluation' urgedLast Friday, the UN human rights chief, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, suggested that Duterte "needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation" over his "unacceptable" remarks about some top human rights defenders.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2018 13:30 UTC