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Enforcing global justice has to be the legal challenge of all time. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has global authority, but its executive power is limited to a few buildings in the Hague and its budget to $125 million, 30 times smaller than the NYPD's. And its mandate to prosecute the world's worst offences is rejected by the governments of more than half the world's people...
...March 4, the ICC issued a warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity - the first time in the court's history it has charged a sitting head of state. There is almost no hope the warrant will be served. "As soon as al-Bashir flies outside Sudan, he could be arrested," ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, told Al Jazeera on March 3. Which is to say, never...
...Wednesday, the ICC issued a warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity - the first time in its history that it has charged a sitting head of state. A charge of genocide was not included, despite ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's request and the U.S.'s repeated allegations that al-Bashir is guilty of the crime. ICC spokeswoman Laurence Blairon accused al-Bashir of "intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians...
...ICC is undermined by several enduring controversies. Supporters say lasting peace demands justice and point to the arrest and conviction of Sierra Leone's warlords - in a joint U.N.-Sierra Leonean process - which has not restarted that war, as some had feared it would. Sierra Leone "indicates how important it is to have justice if you are going to have peace," the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone told TIME when the last three militia leaders were convicted last week. But opponents argue that peace often requires amnesty more than it does justice and point...
...There are also questions over how meaningful the ICC really is. It was set up in 2002 after 66 countries (out of the world's 195 countries) ratified the Rome Statute; today only 108 countries have ratified it. (The contradiction escalates in al-Bashir's case, which was initiated by a U.N. Security Council referral even though three of the Security Council's five permanent members - Russia, China and the U.S. - have not signed on to the statute.) Plus, the ICC has thus far only pursued Africans, in the Central African Republic and Congo as well as Sudan and Uganda...