The ICC has announced it will open an investigation into crimes under international law committed in the year-long Mali conflict.© ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/GettyImages
By Kathryn Striffolino, Advocate and Science for Human Rights Project Coordinator at Amnesty International USA
Mali is currently facing its most serious humanitarian and human rights crisis since its independence in 1960, with myriad rights abuses rampant, amounting to what may become charges of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity. Cue the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“The legal requirements have been met, we will investigate.”-ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda