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Professor Luis Moreno Ocampo was unanimously chosen Monday to be the chief prosecutor of the newly formed International Criminal Court (ICC...
...ICC, which is run under the auspices of the United Nations, was designed as a permanent replacement for the temporary ad hoc agencies that have prosecuted war crimes in the past...
...play a game. Is England afraid of being beaten by us?" But English players, whose official appeal to move the match was turned down Friday, were plainly worried that any demonstrations by Mugabe's opposition that took place while a game was in progress would be harshly suppressed. The ICC, which controls the World Cup, and South African World Cup management officials insist that security isn't an issue in either country, but there are contingency plans to play the disputed games in South Africa. The teams could forfeit points if they refuse to play, which would probably prevent England...
It’s also ironic that both Israel and the United States have declined to ratify the ICC given the Nuremburg trials of Nazis after World War II laid the framework for providing international tribunals to try war criminals. How can we prevent such horrific actions from recurring when we refuse to provide adequate international enforcement and a strong international message...
...states, notably the United States, refuse to join the ICC out of an unfounded fear that a rogue prosecutor will try its soldiers capriciously. In reality, the U.S. has nothing to worry about thanks to the ICC’s statute providing a series of three checks and balances, the ability of the U.N. Security Council to overrule a prosecutor’s decision and individual states’ sovereign maintenance of jurisdiction should they prefer to try an individual themselves. Yet the U.S. has almost threatened an all-out invasion of the Netherlands if an American is ever brought...