“Some of the ICC’s problems are of its own making. The chief prosecutor for its first nine years, Luis Moreno Ocampo of Argentina, seemed more interested in issuing arrest warrants than undertaking the tough, less glamorous work of conducting rigorous criminal investigations. So far six of the thirty-one prosecutions he launched – three in Kenya, two in Congo, and one in Sudan – have been withdrawn, dismissed, or led to acquittal due to lack of evidence. (The acquittal is still under appeal).” That’s what Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, writes in his article in The New York Review of Books on 8 January. Do you agree?
Posted on: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:05:00 +0000
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