With cases against Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders, the ICC has its best ever opportunity for relevance, says Simon Kuper for the Financial Times.
PARIS: It’s a quiet morning at the International Criminal Court , tucked in behind the dunes in The Hague. The day I visited there was only one suspect on trial, sitting in a small courtroom behind bulletproof glass: Mahamat Said, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Central African Republic.
If there’s a murder down the road in The Hague, 25 Dutch officials might investigate. The ICC might have a couple of investigators for multiple suspected mass atrocities in a huge territory where they cannot safely travel. Friends of Russia, Israel or Hamas can dismiss the ICC as biased. Russian officials threatened to fire missiles at it. Netanyahu, predictably, has called Khan antisemitic. The Guardian newspaper and two Israeli magazines report that Israel has waged a “nine-year ‘war’” against the ICC, including hacking and smearing of court officials.I left The Hague sceptical that the ICC will prosecute many more atrocities. But I’m hopeful that other forces will.
One day, perpetrators might be tried. The model is the conviction of Khmer Rouge leaders in the 2010s for the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. This was possible because Yale University and the Documentation Center for Cambodia had collected evidence.Another type of war criminal may start facing justice: The corporate executive. Sweden is prosecuting two former executives of the company formerly known as Lundin Oil, for allegedly aiding war crimes in Sudan.
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