Former President Rodrigo Duterte, long-time mayor of Davao City, makes his first appearance before the International Criminal Court via video link from his detention center in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Friday, 14 March 2025. Of 76 victims, 19 or 25% of the victims were killed in Davao City while Duterte was mayor. The Coalition Against Summary Executions (CASE) in Davao City had documented cases of summary killings since 1998, attributed to the DDS. De Lima investigated the killings in Davao City in 2009, when she chaired the Commission on Human Rights and when she was elected Senator in 2016. “Duterte’s approval was required for DDS members to conduct killings in Davao City,” the ICC said.