Within the Public Sq.: What in regards to the victims?

What does it imply for the ICC to be victim-centric? And is justice actually throughout the attain of EJK victims?

“What in regards to the victims?” To ask that query, with out further context, is to ask a counter-question: Which victims? The nation and the world have a horrible multitude of victims to select from: victims of cyber-scams, or of the Persian Gulf warfare, of flood management corruption, of the invasion of Ukraine, or the genocide in Gaza.

Within the final week of February, on the Worldwide Legal Courtroom, valuable courtroom time was given to the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called warfare on medicine.

What does it imply for the ICC to be victim-centric? And is justice actually throughout the attain of victims of extra-judicial killings or EJKs?

For a lot of Filipinos watching the ICC livestream, one of the affecting moments could have been when counsel for the victims Joel Butuyan, in his opening assertion, described an ICC trial of Duterte because the victims’ “final boat” to justice.

On this episode of Within the Public Sq., Rappler columnist John Nery is joined by Joel Butuyan. He is without doubt one of the three CLRVs or Widespread Authorized Representatives of the Victims appointed within the Duterte case.

Watch the episode on Wednesday, March 11, at 8 pm.-Rappler.com