International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
says she is happy with the trial of Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
-- despite admitting she has no information on how it is being conducted.
UN trial monitors fled the city last summer at the start of Libya's civil war, and since then the ICC has had little idea what is taking place.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has told Senussi's ICC-appointed lawyers in London there is no reason to review The Hague's original decision to let Libya hold the trial.
"Neither the deteriorating security situation in Libya, nor the apparent change in power in Tripoli, have had a detrimental impact on the trial process," her office said in a statement,
Two years ago, the ICC gave Libya permission to try Senussi, which was conditional on him having a fair trial.
The case has been one of the most controversial in the ICC's short history.
In 2011 the UN Security Council ordered the ICC to investigate war crimes in Libya, and by June it had indicted Muammar Qadaffy
...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
, his son Saif Al-Islam and Senussi for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Senussi, Qadaffy's chief enforcer and blamed by many Libyans for decades of repression, was enjugged
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in 2012 in Mauritania and extradited to Libya.
Saif was captured by Zintan militia, who refused to hand him over to Tripoli authorities.
Later in 2012, Melinda Taylor, Saif's ICC appointed lawyer, was held by the Zintan militia for several weeks when she tried to visit him in the mountain town.
In 2013, ICC judges ruled that because Saif was being held by a militia, Libya could not guarantee a fair trial. But it agreed that Libya could hold the trial of Senussi, handing jurisdiction from The Hague to Tripoli.
Senussi's trial began in April last year in Tripoli amid much confusion.
Libya refused to allow access to the public or broadcast proceedings, and a monitor from Human Rights Watch
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
was denied entry.