The annihilation of alien peoples as a means of conquest and supremacy-long the leitmotif of history-is increasingly an aberration, albeit one that still haunts our conscience with disturbing frequency. ... Although the scope of ICC action may, to that extent, be constrained, there is no dearth of actual or prospective atrocities of a sufficient scale or gravity among signatory states to warrant international prosecutions. ... The ICC prosecutor has already indicated his decision to "closely follow" the situation in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which involves an esti...

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