The Importance Of The ICC

The International criminal court was created to create peace in the world by enforcing law and arresting those guilty of crimes again human rights. The ICC is not only for third world countries, dictatorship ruled countries, war ridden countries; it is also for first world countries. ICC attempts to or catches criminals that revoke human rights by enacting in illegal activities; such as LRA militants that take children from their homes, make them pick up guns and kill their parents. In third world countries where the government is corrupt or virtually non-existent, leave its citizens defenceless against horrible criminals. The is why the ICC is need and comes into play; the ICC can issues arrest warrants against these horrible criminals of all sorts and bring them to trial to face the law for heinous crimes against humanity. In countries where the government has some corruption cause problems for those not corrupt and their attempts in righting what is wrong; the ICC is an external force that can assist those parties in investigating and bringing criminals to justice. However, the ICC has …show more content…
Sometimes a first world country may have corrupt officials that prevent justice to be brought to criminals. An example would be the court system being bribed by huge corporations. Corporations are giants, they have tremendous powers both financially and politically speaking; there able to hide illegal acts from being taken to court or even investigated. The ICC should be a fail-safe justice system, comprised of selected trusted citizens from every country and gargantuan amounts of international support. In cases of crimes being committed in first world countries, the ICC would be able to investigate, present evidence, issue an arrest warrant and capture those