Posted on 06/16/2021 11:12:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai
British lawyer Karim Khan was sworn in as the new chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Wednesday.
The 51-year-old replaces outgoing prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of Gambia, who extended the war crimes court’s reach during her nine-year term. […]
During a career spanning decades, he has argued in all the major international courts and conducted high-profile probes, including a special United Nations investigation into crimes by Islamic State militants in Iraq.
He has also courted controversy by representing Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
Khan has been left with several probes to tackle, among them an investigation into the politically fraught Palestinian-Israeli conflict and alleged war crimes by the US in Afghanistan.
“He’s inheriting far too many situations for the office of the prosecutor; there is no way they can investigate them all,” Kevin Heller, professor of international law at the university of Copenhagen, told Reuters. …
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Well, they would know a thing or two about war crimes.
The ICC is a travesty to begin with.
This only confirms it.
It should be abolished
The ICC has as much concern for justice as CNN has for real news.
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