{"id":223827,"date":"2022-11-14T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=223827"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:24:01","slug":"attempt-to-try-russian-leaders-for-war-crimes-is-part-of-the-wests-weaponization-of-the-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/11\/attempt-to-try-russian-leaders-for-war-crimes-is-part-of-the-wests-weaponization-of-the-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes Is Part of the West\u2019s Weaponization of the ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"

International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a \u201cbattering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,\u201d as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[Source: theguardian.com]<\/p><\/div>\n

14 Nov 2022 – <\/em>The quote above does not come from President Putin of Russia or from President Xi of China. It comes from David Scheffer, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) in the Clinton administration and lead negotiator for the United States during the creation of not fewer than five international criminal tribunals, namely for ex-Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n

Scheffer used the battering-ram image while talking about the first international criminal tribunal established in May 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cBy then, the tribunal was a potent judicial tool, and I had enough support from President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, and other top officials in Washington to wield it like a battering ram in the execution of U.S. and NATO policy.\u201d (All the Missing Souls, A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals<\/em>, Princeton University Press, 2012)<\/p>\n

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David Scheffer [Source: international-criminal-justice-today.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

This quote is important today as calls resound to bring Russian citizens and the president of Russia before international criminal courts, whether they exist or are being planned. The calls are being issued by NATO countries, the European Union as well as by UN organizations and by the obedient Western media.<\/p>\n

NATO and European Union strategy is becoming clear. Their goal is to weaponize international criminal justice and human rights, today against Russia, today and tomorrow against China or any other country that dares to say NO to what the United States and its allies or vassals are trying to impose\u2014or save. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n