Article 75Q3A The Philippines' former top cop evades police and goes into hiding

The Philippines' former top cop evades police and goes into hiding

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editors@theworld.org (Dave Grunebaum)
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For several days last week, Senator Ronald dela Rosa took refuge inside the Philippines Senate after barely outrunning government agents. They wanted to serve him with an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, and bring him into custody. Dela Rosa is suspected of crimes against humanity for his role in the country's bloody drug war under former President Rodrigo Duterte. The case is raising prickly questions of a political rivalry between two powerful families. Dave Grunebaum reports.

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