The Day They Announced They Would Dismantle It
While the ICC’s Deputy Prosecutor sat with Darfur’s war survivors in Chad, Washington announced it would dismantle the court that serves them, brick by brick. Nine days later, member states removed the prosecutor himself, overruling the judges who’d already cleared him. Nancy Perin traces both fronts: the sanctions, the vote, and what it means when accountability becomes the thing under attack. Canada helped build this court. What happens now depends partly on whether it still will.
