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The Rest of the World Special Report | The Court
In 2002, the world built a court to prosecute the crimes no one else would: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity. Twenty-four years later, it has convicted exactly three people for those crimes. Twelve more, including a sitting Sudanese president wanted for genocide, remain free, protected less by law than by the diplomatic weight of the governments that shelter them.Then, in 2025, an elected head of state was arrested by his own police force and put on a plane to The Hague within hours. Rodrigo Duterte is still there. It proved the system can work when a government decides it…
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