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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the ICC-what-they-did-there dept.

Russia has repudiated the International Criminal Court (ICC) by withdrawing its signature from the founding Rome Statute, a day after the ICC published a report that called Russian's annexation of Crimea an "on-going state of occupation". Russia is not a member of the ICC because it had never ratified the treaty:

Russia has said it is formally withdrawing its signature from the founding statute of the international criminal court, a day after the court published a report classifying the Russian annexation of Crimea as an occupation. The repudiation of the tribunal, though symbolic, is a fresh blow to efforts to establish a global legal order for pursuing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In recent months, three African countries who were all full members of the ICC – South Africa, Burundi and Gambia – have signalled their intention to pull out, following complaints that ICC prosecutions focused excessively on the African continent.

The Russian foreign ministry made the announcement on Wednesday on the orders of the president, Vladimir Putin, saying the tribunal had failed to live up to hopes of the international community and denouncing its work as "one-sided and inefficient". Russia signed the Rome statute in 2000 and cooperated with the court, but had not ratified the treaty and thus remained outside the ICC's jurisdiction. This means that the latest move, though highly symbolic, will not change much in practice.

Also at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NPR, NYT, RT, and Foreign Policy.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday November 17 2016, @04:15PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday November 17 2016, @04:15PM (#428173)

    This did come up a few times during the Democratic primaries, but basically there isn't a great deal of news coverage about the US's non-participation in the ICC because it's an area where both major parties agree. And there are basically 2 real reasons why neither Democrats nor Republicans want to have anything to do with it:
    - They would have good grounds for prosecuting Israeli leaders such as Bibi Netenyahu and Avigdor Lieberman. Israeli policy towards its occupied territories is not really all that different from German policy towards occupied Poland during the 1940's or Serbian policy towards occupied areas of Bosnia.
    - They would have excellent grounds for prosecuting American leaders such as Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. Cheney and Bush could go down for crimes against the peace (Iraq) and crimes against humanity (Gitmo). Clinton and Obama could also go down for crimes against the peace (Yemen, Syria, etc) and crimes against humanity (drone strikes on civilian targets, bombing Doctors Without Borders).

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