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Can The Icc Ever Get It Right?, Richard Burchill
Can The Icc Ever Get It Right?, Richard Burchill
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Nesrine Malik makes clear with her title, “The ICC’s Blunder on Sudan,” that something has gone amiss with the efforts of Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to ensure the ICC statute is applied to those circumstances it was meant to address. But why is something amiss in this situation? The Prosecutor has a mandate and the legal regime for the ICC is relatively clear (at least procedurally); the crimes it covers can always be debated, but there is a degree of clarity present as to what acts are addressed; so what has gone wrong? The difficulty lies in expectations about justice and …
Confronting The Politics And Law Behind Battles Over The Icc’S Bashir Indictment, Anthony Chase
Confronting The Politics And Law Behind Battles Over The Icc’S Bashir Indictment, Anthony Chase
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Nesrine Malik points in the wrong direction in arguing that charges of genocide embarrass the ICC more than they do Omar al-Bashir. The embarrassment here should come from those, such as Malik, who snidely downplay the level of war crimes committed in Darfur, who discuss genocide as if it is a cultural rather than political matter (does Malik seriously think genocide ever has anything to do with a country’s cultural traditions, as she says in defending Sudan?), or who naively give credence to predictable political push-back from Sudan and its allies. The ICC faces serious legal and political obstacles, some …
March Roundtable: Icc And Darfur Introduction
March Roundtable: Icc And Darfur Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“The ICC's Blunder on Sudan” by Nesrine Malik. The Guardian. February 4, 2010.