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"Madam President, the aim of the International Criminal Court is to judge the perpetrators of the most serious crimes that have international implications, an aim that is all the more commendable since it was defined at the end of the most crime-ridden century in the history of humanity, a century which saw the genocide of the Armenians in 1916, of the Jews in the 1940s, one hundred million deaths caused by Communism, the Christians of Sudan massacred by Islamic fundamentalists, one million starving children in Iraq because of sanctions on their country … the list goes on. Alas, most of the authors of these crimes have escaped justice. Only the German National Socialists and the Japanese leaders were tried by those who defeated them, some of whom should have also been in the dock. On the other hand, the international socialists such as Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot enjoyed total immunity.
Would an International Criminal Court have avoided these crimes, or at least punished the murderers? I have my doubts. The ICC member countries do not have the same concept of law. The powerful countries will continue to evade the law, and, even here, some speakers such as Mr Poettering have told us that it was wrong for the Romanians to have agreed to conclude bilateral agreements, but the US, which pushed them into this, would not entertain any criticism whatsoever.
The founding statute of the Court claims that the Court shall only intervene on a subsidiary basis, in cases where the Member States refuse to exercise their sovereign right or are not in a position to do so. If that is true, it is difficult to understand the fierce opposition from the United States. The abrupt change of direction by the US might well be viewed with a degree of cynicism."@en1
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