Today the International Criminal Court is examining allegations of grave crimes in Georgia, Colombia, Afghanistan, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire and Gaza. These “preliminary examinations” are further raising the stakes in these already high-stakes areas of conflict. In this four-minute video, leading figures in international criminal justice discuss the role of the ICC’s newly public examinations. Ken Roth, CEO of Human Rights Watch, applauds them as a useful “prod” for domestic justice as well as a way of rebutting complaints that the ICC is too focused on Africa. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo describes his authority to conduct these inquiries and promises to provide more detailed information about the examinations going forward.

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