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Ahmed Charai • September 19, 2018 at 8:00 pm
- Ambassador
John Bolton was prescient in his 1998 warning, when the formation
of body was first being debated in Rome, that it would be
ineffective, unaccountable and overly political.
- The
reconciliation commissions of South Africa and Morocco aimed to
rehabilitate victims, and pay compensation for state outrages
against them. That method would be a better model for Africa than
a court funded and run from Europe.
- The
International Criminal Court is a noble ideal but a flawed
institution. Far better to encourage nations to develop courts
that are accountable to the victims and free from charges of
selective enforcement or foreign intervention.
The International Criminal Court in
The Hague, Netherlands. (Image source: United Nations/Flickr)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is "already
dead to us" National Security Adviser John Bolton told the
Federalist Society recently. The U.S. will, he said, resist the court
"by any means necessary."
Why would the Trump Administration take such a hard line
against "the world's court of last resort"? Founded in 2002,
in the wake of the Rwandan and Yugoslavian genocides and mass rapes,
the international body was supposed to try evildoers who would
otherwise escape justice due to broken legal systems in failed states.
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