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17 Aug Revolting Against the Article 98 ICC Agreements
...Nazis charge US military forces with crimes with the ICC because US forces supposedly "mistreat' them upon capture, but it is clear that no bodily harm was ever done to the Nazis. The ICC however beased upon its moral relativist charter charges the US troops with war crimes until the bureaucracyy can get things "sorted out". Moral relativist logic fallacy.So all the ICC is for the United States is an unnatural international police state control to be used against a free country, when the ICC is specifically designed to confront...11 Apr Complementarity Compromised? The ICC Gives Congo the Green Light to Re-Try Katanga
heart of the ICC’s decision to allow Katanga’s trial before the DRC’s High Military Court. Though it is ostensibly a procedural safeguard for ICC defendants who go back to their country of origin, the ICC Presidency appears to have precious little time for Katanga’s fair trial rights. Citing the Libya admissibility challenges, the judges emphasize that the ICC ‘is not an international court of human rights’ (para. 31). In two brief but astounding paragraphs, the ICC dismisses Katanga’s concerns about an unfair trial in the Congolese military system, where he...
04 Oct Distant Justice Symposium: A Reply by Phil Clark
...extent to which the ICC has entrenched undemocratic regimes in Africa. The ICC, he argues, is a ‘mildly consequential cog in the wheel of DRC and Uganda politics’ – and regardless these states, which were violent and undemocratic long before the ICC intervened, have since made important democratic advances, evidenced by the string of recent national elections in the two countries. Owiso questions the extent of the ICC’s political influence in Africa: it may be negative but is it as negative as Distant Justice contends? Chapter 3 of the book...
03 Feb ICC and Palestine Symposium: ‘Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere’ – Palestine, Israel, and the ICC
...of the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigating crimes committed in Palestine. Even respected proponents of international justice have lined up to proffer reasons as to why an ICC investigation should be thwarted. In doing so, they project a vision of international criminal justice that should only be available some places, some of the time. There are major costs to this view – for both Palestine and Israel, for the ICC, and for the project of international criminal justice. The ICC route has its limitations, but efforts to achieve even a...22 Jan No, Going to the ICC Is Not “Lawfare” by Palestine
Nazis, the ICTR prosecuting only Hutus. But the ICC? The ICC investigates situations, not specific crimes. By ratifying the Rome Statute and filing its Art. 12(3) declaration, Palestine has taken both Israel and itself to the ICC, not Israel alone. Palestine thus no longer has any control whatsoever over which individuals and which crimes the OTP investigates. That’s not lawfare, that’s bravery — especially given that, as I’ve pointed out time and again on the blog, the OTP is quite likely to go after Hamas crimes before it goes after...06 Apr The Advantage for Palestine of a Slow Preliminary Examination
Nearly everyone treats Palestine’s membership in the ICC as a done deal; after all, the UN Secretary-General (UNSG) has accepted Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute and the OTP has publicly stated that “since Palestine was granted observer State status in the UN by the UNGA, it must be considered a ‘State’ for the purposes of accession.” But neither the UNSG nor the OTP has final say over whether Palestine qualifies as a state; as Eugene Kontorovich, my friend and regular Israel/Palestine sparring partner, has repeatedly pointed out on Twitter...12 Sep The Fallacy That Attacking a Judicial Institution and its Personnel Protects Americans: A Response to John Bolton’s Speech
the ICC, and is not bound by the ICC's decisions on anything, including jurisdiction. Of course you are right that if the US satisfies the ICC, whether on complementarity or anything else, the ICC will leave it alone, but the US is not obliged to satisfy the ICC. Instead, the US has conducted a largely successful campaign to prevent the ICC from being able to affect American interests. The last thing it should now do is give the ICC some kind of legitimacy by appearing before it. That said, I...
12 Aug Should the ICC Allow the United States to Become a State Party?
or other assertions of the ICC’s jurisdiction due to an existing agreement between the USA and Mali. Like Bush, Obama was markedly more interested in supporting the ICC’s work when it could not result in Americans being held accountable by the Court. Trump’s Strident Opposition to ICC The tide turned against the ICC following Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016. On 10 September 2018, John Bolton, in his role as National Security Adviser, attacked the Court as ‘illegitimate’ and claimed that ‘for all intents and purposes, the ICC...
26 Feb Time for the US to Reset Its Policy on the ICC & Reassume Leadership in International Justice
judicial institution function. At the same time, the US is not an ICC State Party, and thus owes no cooperation obligations to the ICC. Declining to provide assistance related to the Afghanistan situation or Palestine situation is perfectly within the US’s rights. What the US can do in these situations is engage constructively with the ICC—this does not mean actively assist—but treat the ICC with the respect due a judicial institution. For example, if the US maintains there are outstanding issues as to jurisdiction related to the Afghanistan situation (a claim the...
05 Feb ICC and Palestine Symposium: General Assembly Resolution 67/19 and Palestine as a State before the ICC
it declared itself to be the Government of Palestine. Palestine was not being declared as a new state in 1988. Rather, the PLO was putting itself forward as the government of a state dating back to the 1920s. The fact that the State of Palestine dates back to 1923 reinforces the Prosecutor’s analysis that Palestine is a state. The Pre-Trial Chamber need not avert to this earlier time. It can confine itself to referring to General Assembly Resolution 67/19 and to the contemporary acceptance of Palestine to conclude that Palestine...