Families of victims await justice as the ICC reopens Philippines drug war probe

The headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands (Mike Corder/AP)

MANILA, Philippines — On a bright stage in a rented-out high school auditorium, Amelia Santos grieves openly before the audience.

Clutching a wireless microphone, the 55-year-old from Caloocan City, an area in Metro Manila's north, recalls the day she returned home from work in September 2016 and was told her husband, Edward Narvarte, had been killed.