Is the International Criminal Court failing? In May, Fatou Bensouda, the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague officially announced that the ICC would re-open a preliminary examination into international crimes allegedly committed by British armed forces in Iraq. A preliminary examination is carried out to determine whether a full investigation is warranted. Bensouda’s decision to investigate alleged UK crimes in Iraq has led to strong reactions from British politicians and military brass. Indeed, the matter has been compounded by the revelation that the ICC is paying a British lawyer to observe the trial in Libya of Saif Gathafi, the son of the late Colonel Muammar Gathafi. With the ICC already struggling to rehabilitate its image in Africa, where critics insist the court is just another Western-tool, the African Union remaining reluctant to cooperate because the pan-African body claims that the court is targeting African leaders, and now the UK attacking its credibility, the future of the ICC seems more uncertain than ever. Do you think the court can still be the success story it was set to be, or do you think it is set to fail?
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:11:53 +0000
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