I don’t think Antonio Trillanes 4th had ever heard of the ICC before he filed his case in 2018. And third, the CPP has been pushing for this ICC case. It is indeed crazy for this ICC prosecutor to rely on media reports for her assessment on this administration. Bensouda, I suspect, jumped on the Duterte accusations, merely to prove that the ICC isn’t targeting Africans, but even Asians. Similarly, this ICC case against Duterte is nothing but a propaganda scheme, disseminated in newspapers like the Philippine Star, the Inquirer and US news outfits, which allow themselves to disseminate such fake news.

Source: Manila Times December 22, 2020 16:18 UTC