Why Russia Was Right to Veto the Malaysian Boeing Tribunal
... truly a breakthrough in international criminal law. Their mechanisms were still valid in the 1990s to prosecute the criminals of Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. However, with the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002, special international tribunals became obsolete. Hysteria in the media and the urge to punish the criminals as soon as possible prevents the Security Council members from seeing a crucial conceptual problem with Malaysia’s proposal. Establishing another ...
05.08.2015