War crimes court gets 499 complaints

The Daily Telegraph (Australia), July 16, 2003
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/
From correspondents in The Hague

The International Criminal Court (ICC), the new permanent court set up to deal with war crimes, has received 499 complaints, mostly from Europe and the United States, the ICC said today.

Of the 499 complaints, called communications by the ICC, 75 deal with “cases of atrocities”, some in detail with lists of witnesses and summaries of their testimony.

The ICC does not reveal the contents of the complaints or who filed them. The court will only say that some come from non-governmental organisations and others were filed by individuals.

The prosecutor of the ICC, Argentina’s Luis Moreno Ocampo, is set to reveal tomorrow at a press conference in The Hague which of the complaints filed so far fall under the court’s mandate.

The 499 complaints came from 66 countries. From Germany 93 complaints were filed and 70 complaints came from the US. In Europe, 58 came from France, 33 from Britain, 29 from the Netherlands and 23 from Spain.

There were 24 complaints from Africa, while 18 came from Asia.

Of 98 complaints from the Americas, 70 were from the US.

The ICC became a legal reality in July of last year.

It is mandated to try genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The court is not retroactive and can only try cases if events occurred after July 1, 2002.

The Hague-based court works on the basis of complimentarity so it can only try cases if states are not able or willing to investigate human rights violations themselves.

The court has however already been dogged by the US administration’s vehement opposition to its existence.

Washington has suspended more than $US47 million ($71.5 million) in military aid to 35 countries for their failure or refusal to give US citizens immunity from the tribunal.

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