nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Last month, the United Nations human rights office in Geneva issued a report that concluded that the Islamic State had committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly acts of genocide. The report urged the Security Council to refer these acts to the International Criminal Court for investigation.
The proposal might seem abstract, impractical, even pointless; there are no defendants, as of yet, to put on trial. So would an investigation by the International Criminal Court, which is based in The Hague, be a feckless exercise in legal supra-nationalism?
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