tly, there are 84 countries that have joined the ICC. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent court that will be based out of The Hague in The Netherlands. It will investigate and bring to justice individuals who commit the most serious violations of international humanitarian law, when countries cannot or will not prosecute the crimes themselves. The crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC are large scale, affecting hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people. Crimes such as mass executions, murder, rape, forcefully removing people from their homes based on ethnicity, mass torture and mutilations, and the systematic destruction of property of a certain group of people, are all punishable by the ICC. Sounds good so far right? Well …. 1. The Bush administration has called the ICC un-constitutional. In reality almost every due process that is provided by the constitution is guaranteed by the court except for trial by jury. Americans that commit crimes in other countries have far less civil liberties than they would have in the ICC. Even here in the US, the military does not provide for a trial by jury in the Court-Martial system. 2. Undersecretary of political affairs for the state dept. Marc Grossman argues that the UN Security Council was not given absolute authority to stop the prosecutor from proceeding w/ a case. Article 16 in the Rome statute states that the Security Council has the power

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