Spyke
lemmy.world

But most governments also abide by the international legal principle that heads of state have legal immunity from other courts.

So why should anyone arrest Putin?

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And they all think Hitler should never have been trialled if he was caught alive?

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coyootjereply
lemmy.world

Yeah, might as well close down the ICC then I guess. Not much use for it if governments do whatever they want anyway.

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The benefits comes for local efforts to held governments responsible towards war crimes.

Let's say in Canada, if there are a non-profit that send money to the IDF then after such ruling you can push to stop these non-profit from doing so.

I think without these international courts, local government will get away with more crimes.

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