Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was “pivotal” in the murder of thousands of people during his reign, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday, as they pushed for his trial to go ahead.
The prosecutors at the Hague-based war crimes court have charged Duterte with three counts of murder as a crime against humanity, involving dozens of victims that accusers say were only a fraction of the real death toll in his clampdown on alleged drug users and…
