{"id":131752,"date":"2019-04-22T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=131752"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:25:26","slug":"icc-will-not-investigate-u-s-war-crimes-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/icc-will-not-investigate-u-s-war-crimes-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Will Not Investigate U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_131753\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/H4_US-troops-in-Afghanistan-ICC.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131753\" class=\"wp-image-131753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/H4_US-troops-in-Afghanistan-ICC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/H4_US-troops-in-Afghanistan-ICC.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/H4_US-troops-in-Afghanistan-ICC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/H4_US-troops-in-Afghanistan-ICC-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-131753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: U.S. Air Force photo\/Senior Airman Kayla Newman<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>15 Apr 2019 &#8211; <\/em>The International Criminal Court announced Friday [12 Apr] it was refusing to pursue an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the United States and other actors in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The court suggested the U.S.&#8217;s lack of cooperation with the investigation was behind the decision. Earlier this month, the U.S. revoked the visa of ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who asked ICC judges to authorize the investigation in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups condemned the decision. Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights said the ICC was<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cbowing to President Trump&#8217;s pressure campaign\u201d <\/em>and that<em> \u201cWith its decision, the International Criminal Court sends a dangerous message: that bullying wins and that the powerful won\u2019t be held to account.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2019\/4\/15\/headlines\/icc_will_not_investigate_us_war_crimes_in_afghanistan?fbclid=IwAR1Z9gdDWkhYlhx5cZLVl9ccNe1IqCM7RrwD4jGRG949Hdd44R9BWIYd2rU\" >Go to Original \u2013 democracynow.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Criminal Court announced Friday [12 Apr 2019] it was refusing to pursue an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the USA in Afghanistan.<br \/>\n&#8212; \u201cThe ICC is bowing to President Trump&#8217;s pressure campaign. With this decision it sends a dangerous message: that bullying wins and that the powerful won\u2019t be held to account.\u201d (Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":131753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,65,57,56,219,82,139],"tags":[94,2395,651,291,780,769,91,109,287,95,70,126,118,965],"class_list":["post-131752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","category-anglo-america","category-militarism","category-asia-pacific","category-central-asia-2","category-united-nations","category-justice","tag-central-asia","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-justice","tag-military","tag-military-intervention","tag-military-supremacy","tag-nato","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264307,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131752\/revisions\/264307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}