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South Africa has formally requested to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to a document seen by Reuters news agency on Thursday.
The move comes as several African countries have expressed concern that The Hague-based court has tried mostly African leaders.
Last year, South Africa said it planned to exit ICC after it faced criticism for not arresting Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is accused of genocides and war crimes, when he visited the country.
"The Republic of South Africa has found that its obligations with respect to the peaceful resolution of conflicts at times are incompatible with the interpretation given by the International Criminal Court," according to the document.
[...] The ICC, which opened in July 2002 and has 124 member states, is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Another African country, Burundi, appeared set to become the first county to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the 1998 treaty establishing the global court, after its parliament voted last week to leave.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 23 2016, @03:20AM
That thin veneer of civilization.
Given a big enough catastrophe, damned near all of our grandchildren would become savages. The human race was savage far longer than it has been civilized, savagery is ingrained into us.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:42AM
More to the point, if there's a big war and we blow ourselves back to the Iron Age, I'm not sure we have the resource base for another Industrial Revolution. In other words, if we fuck up, that's it; we'll live out the remainder of our lifetime as a species as savages.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by TheLink on Sunday October 23 2016, @05:31AM
We're like an oasis in the middle of a desert, with some stored oasis resources (that we are depleting, e.g. stored up solar energy aka fossil fuels). If we finish or destroy those resources it would take longer before for we can accumulate enough resources for a trek across the desert to a different oasis. But barring some planetary level cataclysm it will be a while yet before the Earth becomes permanently uninhabitable (I doubt even nuclear war would be enough).
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:24PM
The industrial revolution, economy of scale, and mass pollution, and demographic/political imbalance? why should we go through it again automatically?
If we nailed something like LENR, which I suspect is feasible given the disproportionate amount of disinformation in free energy topics (too much effort for pranksters), we would end up in a world that looks more like atlantis than star trek.
Fact is, science fiction has boxed up our imagination instead of expanding it.
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