Keyword: international criminal court

Debate: Joseph Kony and the Neo-Colonial Politics of the International Criminal Court

Picture: As seen on Frontline Club. Video For more than 20 years, the Ugandan government has been fighting the Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony. While his army of child soldiers roams Sudan and the DR Congo, The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague hopes to try him one day. Dutch filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns managed to lay her hands on rare recordings of peace negotiations with Kony in the jungle. Following a screening of Quirijns’ documentary “Peace vs Justice”, the Frontline Club in London...

International Criminal Court Rejects Palestinian Statehood Bid

Picture: Alamay Video On Tuesday, 3 April 2012, after three years of deliberations, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it has finally reached a decision to reject the the Palestinian request to join. If it were accepted it would not only give the Palestinian Authority (PA) the possibility of inviting the ICC to prosecute Israelis or Palestinians accused of war crimes, Genocide, or crimes against humanity, but would have also forced the ICC to establish whether the Palestinian territories...