A hearing that begins in The Hague on Monday will determine whether the ex-president will stand trial over at least 76 of those deaths
Mary Ann Pajo watched quietly as cemetery workers opened her son’s tomb in Manila this week and removed his body for examination by a forensic pathologist.
“This hearing is what we have been waiting for,” Father Flavie Villanueva said after saying a prayer over Joewarski’s remains, the 126th body his non-profit group has exhumed as potential evidence.
“It is important that [Duterte] faces the court in person, physically, for us to see if there is remorse on his part,” said Villanueva, a fierce critic of the former president’s so-called drug war.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
