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| Subject: International Criminal Court Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:20 am | |
| Australia has a role to play in strengthening the court's global reach.
Even the most cursory look at the crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court makes one thing clear. Humankind's capacity to inflict unimaginable suffering upon its own is breathtaking. Yet far too few of the perpetrators of the very worst of such atrocities have ever been called to account.
A decade after the International Criminal Court was established in The Hague, amid great optimism about a new, just world order, not a single judgment has been handed down. The court's first judgment - in the case against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the first person taken into custody by the court - is imminent, but it has taken almost six years to reach this point.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/icc-deserves-help-in-seeking-justice-for-all-20120213-1t23x.html#ixzz1mLHzhwJm
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