06-04-2004, 01:44 PM
Quote:An international tribunal might be neccesary when a nation refuses to hold its citizens responsible for their actions.
Which is, BTW, a requirement for the International Criminal Court to be responsible.
The ICC is only responsible if no national jurisdiction claims responsibility. That again of course means that it is quite easy to create de facto immunity for your citizens on a case-by-case basis.
Quote:Whom do you mean? Surely the U.S. Let me throw just a few words to you: Immunity for War Crimes at Den Haag.
Ewww, yes, the evil evil US :P
They are at least not hypocritical about it, unlike a certain European country that signed the Rome Statute knowing that it can not actually put its citizens under ICC jurisdiction anyway, because of its own constitution.
The US did not "claim immunity". They simply stated that they do not want to become a party to the Rome Statute. That is how treaties work. You are free to become a party to them, or not.