How do we convene a tribunal in the International Criminal Court?

Free Republic ^ | Oct 6 | RandFan

[RandFan]

"We need tribunals!" - Matt Bracken

I was reading about the process on how to convene them and came across the International Criminal Court's website which contains a lot of information and past cases etc.

It looks like we would need a 'State Party' to refer Fauci, Gates, Daszak, etc. to the Court. A state that has ratified the Rome Statute (Here's a list).

I think the crime of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' are the most relevant charges.

Insights welcome!

Here's the process below FYI:

How the Court works

The crimes

The Court's founding treaty, called the Rome Statute, grants the ICC jurisdiction over four main crimes.

First, the crime of genocide is characterised by the specific intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by killing its members or by other means: causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Second, the ICC can prosecute crimes against humanity, which are serious violations committed as part of a large-scale attack against any civilian population. The 15 forms of crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute include offences such as murder, rape, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, enslavement – particularly of women and children, sexual slavery, torture, apartheid and deportation.

Third, war crimes which are grave breaches of the Geneva conventions in the context of armed conflict and include, for instance, the use of child soldiers; the killing or torture of persons such as civilians or prisoners of war; intentionally directing attacks against hospitals, historic monuments, or buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes.

Finally, the fourth crime falling within the ICC's jurisdiction is the crime of aggression. It is the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, integrity or independence of another State. The definition of this crime was adopted through amending the Rome Statute at the first Review Conference of the Statute in Kampala, Uganda, in 2010.

On 15 December 2017, the Assembly of States Parties adopted by consensus a resolution on the activation of the jurisdiction of the Court over the crime of aggression as of 17 July 2018.

There is also this website which contains much more information and previous cases before the Court.#

If this is not an option then I suppose something can be done through the DoJ and these criminals prosecuted for their crimes. However, it would take the will of the administration and that is not likely.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Third, war crimes which are grave breaches of the Geneva conventions in the context of armed conflict and include, for instance, the use of child soldiers; the killing or torture of persons such as civilians or prisoners of war; intentionally directing attacks against hospitals, historic monuments, or buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes.”

Bombing civilians and lying about it is probably a good place to start.

[RandFan]

That’s a good point re: the drone attack.

Various admin officials could be charged with that one...

[BuffaloJack]

The International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction here.

[Mariner]

Anyone with sufficient firepower can convene such a tribunal, and enforce the outcome.

Without that firepower, you’re a joke.