The International Criminal Court has given the go-ahead for the investigation, infuriating the US, which says it will arrest ICC judges if it has to
Gambian lawyer and international criminal law prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Picture: REUTERSInternational war crimes judges ruled on Thursday that a probe into wartime abuses in Afghanistan must go ahead, including looking into possible atrocities committed by US forces, as they overturned a previous court ruling.
Pre-trial judges are only called on to see if there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation, not to “review the prosecutor’s analysis”, he said. Bensouda’s move, however, has unleashed a backlash from Washington, which, in April last year, revoked her visa as part of broader restrictions on ICC staff probing American or allied personnel. Former national security advisor John Bolton warned in 2018 that the US would arrest ICC judges if the court pursued an Afghan probe.
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