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Harmen van der Wilt, Fachinformationsdienst Für Internationale Und Interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
2022 Völkerrechtsblog  
Harmen van der Wilt 2022-07-13T09:00:01 It is fairly generally accepted amongst ICL-scholars that the success of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after being some 20 years in operation is not to be merely gauged by the number of its convictions. As it is well-known, the ICC's first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, even contended that the absence of any judgment by the Court would not indicate that the Court had failed its mission. After all, it might just imply that national jurisdictions
more » ... ad complied with their primary responsibility to genuinely prosecute and try suspects of international crimes. The complementarity principle would have functioned properly in that the performance of national courts would have obviated the intervention of the Court.
doi:10.17176/20220713-113327-0 fatcat:qs25yef34je2dcqngkbtq765jy