Senator Bato dela Rosa urges U.S. President Donald Trump to sanction Filipinos who assisted in turning over former president Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court.
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00:00Senator Bato De La Rosa urges U.S. President Donald Trump to sanction Filipinos who assisted
00:06in turning over former President Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court.
00:11This makes De La Rosa one of the first officials in the world to propose real-world implementation
00:15of an executive order Trump issued in February.
00:17It is a moral obligation of this committee also to share our findings of this committee
00:26to President Donald Trump so that whoever owns this Gulfstream airplane, if there are
00:33owners in America, they can convert it to the executive order signed by President Trump.
00:40It was his first appearance at a Senate hearing since Duterte's arrest on March 11.
00:44ICC prosecution reports have repeatedly named De La Rosa and Duterte as co-perpetrators
00:49of a state-sanctioned policy of killing.
00:52The U.S. Congress has not yet passed legislation that would sanction ICC officials, but Trump
00:57in February signed an executive order with the same effect.
01:00Officially, the order reads,
01:02The United States unequivocally opposes and expects our allies to oppose any ICC actions
01:07against the United States, Israel, or any other ally of the United States that has not
01:11consented to ICC jurisdiction.
01:14International human rights lawyers are concerned that the order's vague wording could extend
01:18to Filipinos due to the Philippines being a major U.S. ally and no longer an ICC member.
01:24Asked if he has actually talked to a U.S. official to pursue the sanctions, De La Rosa
01:28said,
01:29Secret.
01:30Meantime, De La Rosa says he will try to apply for a Schengen visa to visit Duterte in The
01:34Hague.