POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Nuremberg
27 Mar 2013
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If you"re part of the losing side, you"re bought before a tribunal. The winning side usually never gets held accountable for any war crimes etc. We need a tribunal that applies to winners and losers. The icc, doesn"t apply to george bush etc. They are not member states and they are too powerful to be touched. The unites states never ratified it, so it doesn"t apply to them. The icc can launch investigations on their own. The united states can launch military actions against the icc if they are holding us citizens active, regardless of their crime. The international criminal court has a mandate of trying and if necessary convicting individuals who are responsible for committing genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. In the 11 years that the icc has been around, they have held one person accountable. The icc only does stuff in africa (colonial type of justice).
