Crimes Against Humanity: International Criminal Court

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On 1 July 2002 a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) was created. The ICC purpose is to have a body that can prosecute serious crimes against humanity (no matter who committed them) and try people for gross violations of human rights. It would serve to guarantee human rights, independently. Sixty countries were needed to ratify the ICC which occurred on 11 April 2002. At the beginning of May, Bush II announced its resolve to "unsign" the Rome Statute creating the ICC. In his article, "Know the Truth About The International Criminal Court," Benjamin Ferencz explains how, "[a]s part of an ongoing campaign against the ICC, the United States threatened to withdraw its peacekeeping forces unless the new international court was divested of any authority to try Americans."

--David Ratcliffe, "Rejecting the Foundations of International Law
US Unsigns the International Criminal Court Treaty," Sept 2002

Fact Sheet on The International Criminal Court, United Nations, December 2002
U.S. Fears Prosecution of President in World Court,
Reuters, 15 Nov 2002
Rejecting the Foundations of International Law
U.S. "Unsigns" the International Criminal Court Treaty
from Broadening Our Perspectives of 11 September 2001)
by David Ratcliffe, September 2002
Coalition of the willing?
Make that war criminals, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Feb 2003
U.S. Asks For Immunity in Colombia,
Associated Press, 15 Aug 2002

"A senior U.S. official said a principal motive for U.S. opposition to the newly created International Criminal Court was fear that the court might prosecute the president or other civilian or military leaders.
"Our concern goes beyond the possibility that the prosecutor will target for indictment the isolated U.S. soldier. . . . Our principal concern is for our country's top civilian and military leaders, those responsible for our defense and foreign policy . . . A fair reading of the treaty (setting up the court) leaves one unable to answer with confidence whether the United States would now be accused of war crimes . . ."

--Reuters, US Fears Prosecution of President in World Court, 15 Nov 2002

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