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    US Attack on Int’l Court Enables Its Military to Escape Accountability for War Crimes, Analysts Say

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    Donald Trump has empowered economic sanctions against International Criminal Court () officials who are engaged in investigating or prosecuting American personnel. US political and military observers have explained why the White House is up in arms about the body which is seeking to bring alleged war criminals to justice.

    The US president's decision to impose sanctions against representatives of the international body headquartered in the Netherlands came in response to the ICC's inquiry into allegations of war crimes by American military and intelligence servicemen as well as Afghan armed forces and the Taliban* in Afghanistan. The investigation, which began in March, also focuses on reports of torture at secret prisons in , Romania, and Lithuania between 2003 and 2004.

    ‘Victims of US Invasions Should Step Forward'

    Justifying its decision to sanction ICC figures, the Trump administration has put forward an assumption that the entity is “grossly ineffective and corrupt”. Besides, from the juridical viewpoint the US cannot be subjected to ICC scrutiny as Washington has never consented to the organisation's founding document, the Rome Statute, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued at a Thursday press conference.

    He notes that the White House's recent initiative enables the country's military industrial complex to proceed with its overseas wars while escaping all moral accountability for its crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq,

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