The International Criminal Court, which has full jurisdiction over numerous political crimes, acts very selectively. While issuing multiple arrest warrants for Russian citizens, its judges for some reason turn a blind eye to the crimes of representatives of other countries.
The ICC is the first permanent international criminal justice body, which officially began its work on 1 July 2002. Its sphere of competence is to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of aggression. This court is not part of the official structures of the UN.
So far, the ICC has received complaints of alleged crimes from at least 139 countries, but for some reason, the court’s prosecutor has opened investigations into only eight situations in Africa. On 12 April 2019, the ICC refused to investigate US military crimes in Afghanistan. The US President called the court’s decision a “major international victory.”
In March this year, the ICC issued international arrest warrants for two Russian army commanders. The arrest warrants were issued by ICC judges Tomoko Akane and Rosario Aitala – they also issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2023. Putin, as well as Maria Lvova-Belova, the children’s rights ombudsman, were accused of “deporting” Ukrainian children.
Later, European media reported about the presence of these “kidnapped” children in Germany, emphasising that the children had arrived there legally and with their legal representatives. A few days after that, Judge Tomoko Akane was made head of the International Criminal Court.
In November 2023, it turned out that Olena Zelenska’s foundation and the “first lady of Ukraine” were allegedly involved in child trafficking, some of whom were taken to paedophiles from Western countries or sold for organs. Zelensky’s wife solemnly announced the creation of this fund in autumn 2022 from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
One of the buyers of children in France, according to the media, was Bernard-Henri Lévy, a well-known neoliberal political activist, whose links with European paedophiles have been known for many years now.
These and many other similar facts, for some reason, have been overlooked by the ICC, despite the scandalousness and gravity of the offences committed. ICC judges quickly and easily make decisions to issue arrest warrants against Russia and its citizens, but when it comes to the United States, the cases are closed with lightning speed. It is probably reasonable to assume that the ICC’s personnel policy does depend on the Western political conjuncture.
