PH may be held liable for South Korean businessman’s slay
The Philippines may have to issue a formal apology and pay reparations to South Korea for the killing of businessman Jee Ick-joo by police officers at Camp Crame under international law, a lawmaker said on Friday.
Kabayan Rep. Harry Roque, a former international law professor at the University of the Philippines, said the Philippines “
may be held liable for failure to protect the life of foreign nationals in its territory.”
Such international responsibility, according to the congressman, “may arise given the circumstance of the killing and most specially, when the Tokhang cops responsible for the murder are not investigated and punished for their act.”
Jee Ick-joo was killed shortly after his abduction in October last year allegedly by rogue policemen who had taken advantage of the government’s drug war under a police operation dubbed “Tokhang” to undertake kidnap-for-ransom activities.
The Korean was reportedly murdered within the premises of Camp Crame, the headquarters of the police force, embarrassing its chief, Ronald dela Rosa.
Since the suspected killers were police officers, in effect, they “
acted as agents of the Philippine government regardless of the illegality of their acts,” Roque said.
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