Pact iV: Another Joins the Dots

Interested to see that the International Justice Tribune - which promotes itself as the independent newsletter on international criminal justice - has today drawn the same link between two events which this blog first noted here.

The Cambodian parliament has unanimously adopted an agreement with the United States to prevent US citizens from being extradited to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The vote came on the first day of a visit, on 18 and 19 May, by US war crimes ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper. The ambassador was heading a delegation to discuss the creation of extraordinary chambers to try the Khmer Rouge. On 2 May, the White House announced that it had signed with Angola its hundredth "bilateral immunity agreement" protecting its citizens from prosecution by the ICC. Forty of these are made with states that are also members of the ICC, including Cambodia.

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