Posted on 10/26/2016 8:36:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The International Criminal Court has begun investigating war crimes in Georgia, is looking into British soldiers accused of torture in Iraq and, in one of its most politically delicate missions yet, sent a team to Israel to discuss crimes in Gaza.
But as the court tries to expand into new geography and investigate new types of crimes, it faces the most serious challenge to its existence: Three nations, all from Africa, have announced that they will no longer work with the tribunal, intensifying a longstanding debate over whether it is biased against the continent.
This week, Gambia, known for crushing political dissent, announced its intention to pull out of the tribunal, denouncing it on state television as the “international Caucasian court.” Though most of the court’s judges are not white, almost all of its full-fledged investigations have focused on Africa. And the planned withdrawal carried an extra barb: Gambia is the home country of the court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda.
Before that, Burundi announced its plans to withdraw, months after Ms. Bensouda announced that she would open a preliminary examination into the killings of antigovernment protesters there.
But most damaging for the court, one of its early champions, South Africa, announced last week that it would leave, too, saying that the court’s writ was “incompatible” with its ability to resolve political conflicts in its neighborhood.
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Looking into the war crimes of the Syrian jihadi rebels and ISIS yet? The genocidal mass murders? The ethnic cleansing? Howzabout the destruction of archaeological treasures thousands of years old.
Will we see them tried and hanged like at Nuremburg?
another globalist organization
international Caucasian Court,
only seems to go after black people
I want to see the war crimes trials of the US and EU heads of state and nomenklatura who created ISIS, and fomented the genocide in Iraq and Syria.
Those people should not rest easy. A movement is swelling to do away with their transnational oppression. There is no statute of limitations on murder, and there is still a lookout for fugitive Nazis.
Might as well keep a lookout for fugitive globalists when they fall from power.
Good for them. No more International ANYTHING. One of the first things President Trump should do is send the UN their eviction notice from Turtle Bay.
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