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Former presidents of ICC group call for review of court after Afghan war crimes probe rejected
[DAWN] The first five presidents of the International Criminal Court's oversight body on Thursday called for a review of the institution's functioning, following its April 12 decision not to investigate possible war crimes committed during the 17-year Afghan war, allegedly by krazed killers, the US army, Central Intelligence Agency and Afghan armed forces.According to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , at least 32,000 civilians have been killed and another 60,000 maimed in the last decade when the organization began compiling the data. ICC prosecutors in 2006 opened a preliminary investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan since 2003. In 2017, chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked judges to allow a full-blown probe not only into the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and Afghan soldiers, but also international forces, particularly US troops and members of the Central Intelligence Agency. The court began collecting material for the case between Dec 2017 and Feb 2018, and has received over 1 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims. Posted by: Fred 2019-04-26 |
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