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International criminal court - Coggle Diagram
International criminal court
Basics
Founded in 1998
Founded by roman statute
Done as a court of last resort
Established in 2002
Reminder of the permanence and international outreach of international law
124 states ratified the statute so are bound to it
Successes
2012
Dyilo - congolese warlard sentenced for 14 years for committing war crimes including employment of child soldiers
2014
Congolese warlord sentenced 12 years for war atrocities during congo civil war
2016
al-Mahd a militant islamist sentenced 9 years for cultural terrorism in Mali
2020
Sudanese government handed over Omar Al-Bashir who was not initially handed over due to past gov not recognising ICC legitimacy - gov changed in 2019
West bank and Gaza strip
Investigated the human rights violations committed by Isreal and Afghanistan on the west bank and in the Gaza strip
Lack of success
Lack jurisdiction because India, Russia, US and China do not recognise ICC jurisdiction so 70% of worlds population cannot be held
US signs bilateral agreements so US citizens in different countries cannot be handed over either
Lack power
Undertakes only successes presented by nation states and UNSC
Has no coercive power itself
Indicted Kenyan president for killing 1000+ people after 07 election - the gov did not cooperate so had to drop its prosecution
Racist
Only convicted and sentenced africans so claim it is racist
AU urges members not to cooperate with it
2017 Burundi left
Russia
Putin withdrew in 2016 over criticisms of annexation of Crimea
Phillippines
Withdrew in 2019 over investigations into the killings because of Duterte's war on drugs