POL343Y5 Lecture : January 10th Lecture.docx
8 Jun 2014
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Controversies of the icc (cooper) (1) : first treaty based for criminals, 10 yrs old. Criticised by some humanitarian workers as a purely symbolic move because of no enforcement powers, weakness of icc, can indite someone but they don"t have enforcement powers, depend on others to appear on the court, majority don"t appear. Someone has to make them showup, aid workers were critical maybe he is a war criminal, if you don"t have the ability to arrest you shouldn"t indite him unless your sure he can stand trial. Save darfur movement, crimes being committed were not just war crimes, but genocide similar to rwanda. Al-bashir"s first response was to expel aid workers from sudan, if they were going to indite him, authority to tell them to stay or not because he was president, critical they were trying to aid people. Undermined the chances of a long-term peace settlement, by indicting the president.
