Johannesburg — NEVER again" is the simply-put rationale for the International Criminal Court (ICC), set up in 2002 under the Rome Statute to prosecute international crimes including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
At a conference at the University of the Witwatersrand last week, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Adama Diang said that with the Rome Statute there was "technically no longer any hiding place, any safe haven in the world, where one could be beyond the reach of international criminal justice".
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