Senator told to face music on drugs
PHILIPPINE Senator Ronald M. dela Rosa should stop trying to skirt responsibility for ex-President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s deadly drug war, a congressman said on Sunday.
“He should really get his facts straight and not just go out screaming conspiracy theories,” Party-list Rep. France L. Castro said in a statement.
Mr. Dela Rosa, who was Mr. Duterte’s national police chief who enforced the war on drugs, on Friday accused the government of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. of working with “leftists” and “yellows” to pin his predecessor for the deaths of thousands of drug suspects.
“First, he played nonchalant on the issue… When he felt the International Criminal Court heat was increasing, he begged Marcos, Jr. to protect him from the ICC,” she added. “Now he is saying that there is a conspiracy to nail him and former President Rodrigo Duterte and his ilk.”
Mr. Dela Rosa did not immediately reply to a Viber message seeking comment.
The Philippine government won’t stop the ICC from conducting their investigation of Mr. Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, Solicitor-General Menardo I. Guevarra said in July. — Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio