The point, zonder, is that roughly half the nations of the world are not parties to the ICC and, contrary to your assertion, many of those that do not recognize its supposed authority ARE democracies with perfectly good human rights records - at least over the last 10-15 years. For example, what is it you think the Czech Republic is hiding from? And what about Japan, Mexico, Thailand and the worlds most populous democracy - India? Oh, and I forgot to mention Turkey before - arguably the only real democracy in the Middle East besides Israel.
And BTW, Chile restored democratic rule fifteen years ago and has a vigorous multi-party political system as well as a healthy, market economy. Lumping them in with Iran, Egypt and Pakistan as [by implication] anti-democratic, human rights villains is a surprising display of ignorance.
But, hey! Venezuela is a party to it. Now THERE'S a beacon of ... something.
Finally, is being a small, militarily impotent state really a good excuse for not recognizing this supposed beacon of international justice, the ICC? After all, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein and a bunch of other tiny states are parties. Why not Monaco? What are you all hiding from? |
