The ICC has received some 240 communications on Iraq covering the whole gamut of charges, from genocide to torture. The prosector has rejected the lot and I will leave you with one quote from the dry legalese used in these documents.
The number of potential victims of crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court in this situation – 4 to 12 victims of wilful killing and a limited number of victims of inhuman treatment – was of a different order than the number of victims found in other situations under investigation or analysis by the Office. It is worth bearing in mind that the OTP is currently investigating three situations involving long-running conflicts in Northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Darfur. Each of the three situations under investigation involves thousands of wilful killings as well as intentional and large-scale sexual violence and abductions. Collectively, they have resulted in the displacement of more than 5 million people. Other situations under analysis also feature hundreds or thousands of such crimes. Taking into account all the considerations, the situation did not appear to meet the required
threshold of the Statute.
They've bigger things to deal with than Abu Graib.
1 comments:
maybe that's tru but the atrocities at abu graibh, were conucted by people who claim to want to stamp out tyranny adn torture. This is a real case of "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?" can we trust the Murrocains more specifiacally their government and military to investigate themselves. They are rejecting what the rest of the civilized world says about Gauntanamo Bay on the grounds that we don't know the facts, but will not give us the facts.
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