The ICC’s First Test: Uganda

As the ICC gears up to issue its first arrest warrants against rebel leaders in Uganda, church leaders there are warning that the warrants could upset already fraying peace negotiations. I don’t know anything about the Ugandan situation except that the Ugandan government was the one that referred the case to the ICC, has been trying to withdraw the referral and may be using the ICC as tool to pressure rebel leaders (as the article suggests). It sounds like the Ugandan rebels deserve whatever punishment the ICC can give out, and more, but this whole situation could easily backfire…