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ICC trials: persecution or prosecution?

The ICC is a creature of the Rome Statute of July 17, 1998, whose mandate is to try the four core international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. Those crimes are not subject to any statute of limitations. To date three of the five permanent members of the Security Council; China, Russia and the USA have not ratified that Statute, why?

None of these senior members of the United Nations is overtly engaged in genocide. But due to their omnipresence here on Planet Earth, there are many opportunities for their agents to commit crimes against humanity in alien territory.

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