Dela Rosa’s flight turns Philippine Senate into battleground for ICC accountability

Dela Rosa evading the ICC arrest and the Senate leadership coup could mark a turning point for a Duterte camp under siege, analysts say Dela Rosa, Duterte’s first national police chief and one of the most recognisable faces of his “war on drugs”, narrowly escaped arrest on Monday after officers from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) tried to serve the ICC warrant inside the Senate. He was caught on camera running up a flight of stairs and along a corridor inside the Senate building, hours before the ICC unsealed the warrant.

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