Imagine if President Obama went to Oslo next week to receive his Nobel Peace Prize and was arrested for purported war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. This bit of historical irony would be possible under an argument being made by Luis Moreno- Ocampo, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Mr. Ocampo claims jurisdiction over actions of U.S. troops in Afghanistan because Kabul in 2003 acceded to the Rome Statute, which established the court. He said a preliminary examination already is under way regarding possible American culpability in crimes against humanity. There are 110 ratified parties to the agreement, but of them, only Afghanistan has a major U.S. combat-force presence, and the United States does not recognize the treaty. President Clin...
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Abass discusses (ICC) basing on Resolution 1497 that was adopted by the Security Council, which conferred on states that are not party to the Rome Statute the exclusive jurisdiction over the crimes committed by their troops serving under a multinational force or UN stabilization force in Liberia, except where such jurisdiction has been explicitly waived. Resolution 1497 was the culmination of the tension that has characterized the relationship between the Security Council and the ICC since the Rome Statute came into force in Jul 2002.
The U.S. has not accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has the power to investigate complaints of genocide. The United States took the view that the court could conduct "politically motivated investigations and prosecutions of U.S. military and political officials and personnel. What accountability are you talking about, sir?" said Abu Jassim of Fallujah, who lost four members of his family when a U.S. bomb destroyed his home during the first U.S. offensive against the city in April 2004. "Americans are criminals, and the whole world is covering up for their crimes." They will be held accountable, he said, by Allah and by "the heroes of the Iraqi resistance." "The U.S. crime of deliberately crushing Iraqi infrastructure must be looked at as a crime...
The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over anyone who commits a crime on the territory of a state party ("Obama in handcuffs," Editorial, Wednesday). This is a provision of the ICC's Rome Statute. It derives from the sovereign right of a country to try anyone committing a crime on its soil. Countries that have joined the ICC have assimilated the court to their legal systems, thereby consenting to this jurisdiction if they choose not to try perpetrators through their domestic courts.
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Sixty countries, with the exception of the US, are expected to ratify the Statute of Rome in 1999. The Statute creates the International Criminal Court and bestows it jurisdiction over crimes, namely, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. The Clinton administration did not sign the Statute because it questions the legitimacy of the Court and the Office of the Prosecutor. The American negotiating position suspects that the creation of an unaccountable Prosecutor is directed against the president, the cabinet officers, as well as military and senior civilian leaders responsible for US defense and foreign policy.
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