Can President Macapagal-Arroyo be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity?
In order for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be indicted in the International Criminal Court, the country should ratify the Rome Statute. But of course Macapagal-Arroyo is guilty of all these human rights violations. The tribunal has decided. Afterwards it is our mission, all of the international bodies, to take the case to the international community. If she were tried by a conventional court, what would have been the appropriate punishment? In this tribunal, we applied the international conventions of the law to this case so we did not have a trial different from the international law. If the case were taken to the international court, then the decision wouldnt change because we were objective, we have the evidence, and we conducted the trial according to international law. So the ICC would most probably decide in the same way. In the [conventional] international criminal court, those responsible will be isolated. They will be resigned from their positions. And if they were convicted, the
