Re: <nettime> Emblem for the International Criminal Court: Iustitiae Languor

[Heiko Recktenwald <heikorecktenwald@googlemail.com>]

Am 02.08.2011 15:08, schrieb Tjebbe van Tijen:

> Indictment for Gaddafi but not (yet) for Assad makes one wonder

It is NOT the business of the ICC to protect human rights but to punish 
certain "crimes" and those "crimes" are in the same sphere of 
international politics as the UNSC and Assad. International penal law 
may have played a good role in the case of former Yougoslavia but in 
general it is political kitsch. Artist should not contribute to this.

One does not need the example of Assad to laugh about the indictment 
against Gaddafi, the case of Bashir is enough.

Some years ago everybody was talking of Empire. Who is more to blame for 
the massacres in Sudan, Bashir or those who gave weapons to the people 
in the South?

There are terrible things happening everywhere but international penal 
law is not the answer. We have to compare cases, as you did with Gaddafi 
and Assad, and do what is doable on an equal basis.

As the Romans said of the law: "Est autem a iustitia appelatum: nam, ut 
eleganter Celsus definit, ius est ars boni et aequi" (D. 1, 1, 1, pr.),


H.


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