The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the head and another lawyer of International Criminal Court, ICC. They have previously done the same sanctions on 11 personel.
ICC has been established in 2002 pursuant to the ICC Rome Statute. It is to research and punish any serious war crimes in the international community. Now 125 countries have ratified the Rome statute with the USA, Russia and China excluded. The aim of ICC is to uphold the rule of law in the world. Its function is limited to the areas/countries in its jurisdiction. It is not intended to violate the sovereignty of the nations not ratifying the Rome statute.
As told above, sanctions by the Trump administration is not justified. Since the beginning of this year, it is rather the US which has impinged the sovereignty of Venezuela and of Iran. Those countries have been attacked in preemptive manner and their political leaders have been kidnapped or even killed. These behaviours are definitely against the rule of law in the international community.
The Trump administration is trying to defund and to dismantle ICC. What they insist seems to be ostensible reasoning. They must fear their military actions would be punished by any international organizations like ICC in the future. I could not imagine this is their real reason.
I hate living in the world where military and economical power rules even if it is not accomplished at present. ICC is an important organization to go toward the goal. I absolutely approve ICC and the personel working there in order to maintain and improve the rule of law in the world.
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