"The al-Bashir case settled most legal questions about whether heads of state or government enjoy immunity for international crimes. They don't. [..] Khan’s case breaks new legal ground only insofar as it’s the first time that an international court is charging individuals with the war crime of starvation." - #AlexDeWaal

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Alex de Waal | ICC: Most Wanted

Seventeen years ago, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the first person to hold the post of prosecutor at the International Criminal...

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