The International Criminal Court has cleared the way for its prosecutor to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan — including those allegedly committed by U.S. forces and the CIA.
Indiana University associate professor David Bosco, who has written a book about the ICC, tells NPR's Michele Kelemen that the Trump administration has take a much more confrontational approach to the court than the Obama administration did.
The court also said last April that it needed to prioritize investigations that had better chances of success, adding that the parties involved weren't willing to cooperate with the probe.ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda appealed that decision. She said the pretrial panel's assessment that an investigation would not be in the interests of justice overstepped its discretion, and on Thursday, the appeals chamber judges agreed.
Bensouda also wants to look into methods that the U.S. military and CIA used to interrogate detainees. The prosecution has said,"There is reasonable basis to believe that, since May 2003, members of the US armed forces and the CIA have committed the war crimes of torture and cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, and rape and other forms of sexual violence pursuant to a policy approved by US authorities.
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