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1998 Jul 17 |
In Rome UN delegates from more than 100 countries overwhelmingly approved (120-7) a historic treaty, the Statute of Rome, creating the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, with jurisdiction over individuals, ignoring strenuous U.S. objections over certain provisions. It was to be located in the Hague with 18 judges from 18 countries serving 9 year terms. It still required ratification by 60 countries to become effective. The vote passed 120 to 7 with 21 abstentions. The US, China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar and Yemen voted against the International Criminal Court Treaty (ICC). In 2002 the US moved to withdraw its signature. Links: Qatar, Italy, Iraq, USA, China, Libya, Israel, Yemen, ICC 
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1998 Aug 8 |
In Serbia Slobodan Milijkovic, a Serb wanted by the Int’l. War Crimes Tribunal, was shot and killed by a policeman along with 2 others following insults at an outdoor cafe in Belgrade. Milijkovic, a suspected member of the Chetnicks ultra-nationalist paramilitary unit, had rejected responsibility and said politicians were to blame for the war. Links: Serbia, ICC
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1998 Nov 30 |
Britain along with Lesotho, Burkino Faso, the Ivory Coast and Tajikistan signed a global treaty for an Int’l. Criminal Court to try war crimes. The accord was approved in July at conference in Rome and 61 countries had signed on. The court required 60 countries to pass legislation for ratification. Links: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Britain, Lesotho, Tajikistan, ICC
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2002 Jun 5 |
Colombia ratified the Rome Statute, the treaty that created an Int’l. Criminal Court. Links: Colombia, ICC
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2002 Jul 1 |
The UN sponsored Int'l. Criminal Court began operations at the Hague, Netherlands, upon the entry into force of the Rome Statute (1998) following 60 ratifications. It was vehemently opposed by the US. By 2021 123 countries had signed on to the ICC. Links: USA, Netherlands, UN, ICC
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2002 Aug 3 |
The American Service-Members' Protection Act (ASPA), a United States federal law introduced by US Senator Jesse Helms as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, was passed by Congress. The stated purpose of the amendment was "to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party." It became known as the “Hague invasion act.” Links: USA, ICC
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2002 Aug 10 |
It was reported that the Bush administration had begun warning foreign diplomats that they could lose US military assistance if they join the Int'l. Criminal Court without pledging to protect Americans from its reach. Article 98 allowed nations to negotiate immunity on a bilateral basis. Links: USA, ICC
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2003 Feb 10 |
Afghanistan became the 89th nation to join the International Criminal Court. Links: Afghan, ICC
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2003 May 16 |
Bosnia signed an agreement with the United States on Friday that exempts Americans from prosecution by a new international criminal court. Links: Bosnia, USA, ICC
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2003 |
In eastern Congo Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo led militias including child soldiers who attacked the village of Bogoro, killing over 200 people including women and children. Many of the victims were hacked to death with machetes. In 2008 Katanga and Ngudjolo stood for trial at the Int’l. Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands. Links: Mayhem, Murder, CongoDRC, ICC
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2005 Mar 23 |
France presented a U.N. resolution allowing for the prosecution of Sudanese war crimes suspects at the International Criminal Court, forcing the US to choose between accepting a body it opposes or casting a politically damaging veto. Links: USA, France, UN, Sudan, ICC
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2005 Mar 31 |
After weeks of often bitter negotiations, the UN Security Council approved a resolution to refer Sudanese war crimes suspects to the International Criminal Court, agreeing to major concessions demanded by United States. Links: USA, UN, Sudan, ICC
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2005 Apr 5 |
Tens of thousands of Sudanese marched through the capital Khartoum against a UN resolution referring war crime suspects to the International Criminal Court. Links: UN, Sudan, ICC
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2005 Apr 5 |
The UN handed prosecutors from the International Criminal Court thousands of documents and a list of 51 people to be investigated for alleged war crimes in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region. Links: UN, Sudan, ICC
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2005 May 18 |
Cambodia's legislature ratified a pact with the US exempting each country's citizens from extradition for prosecution by the International Criminal Court, an agreement sought by Washington to avoid political trials of its citizens. Links: USA, Cambodia, ICC
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2005 Jun 6 |
The International Criminal Court at the Hague formally announced the opening of a war crimes investigation in Sudan's Darfur region after receiving a list of 51 potential suspects from UN. Links: UN, Sudan, ICC
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2005 Jul 2 |
Australia and New Zealand agreed on tough new measures to pressure Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to respect human rights, including a sports ban and action against him in the International Criminal Court. Links: Australia, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, ICC
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2005 Aug 30 |
Australia and New Zealand lobbied the United Nations Security Council to indict Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his government in the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Links: Australia, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, ICC
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2005 Oct 28 |
Mexico became the 100th country to ratify the treaty founding the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, which the United States has opposed. Links: Mexico, ICC
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2006 Jan 8 |
Jordan's parliament approved a law that prevents Amman handing over US citizens accused of war crimes to the international criminal court (ICC). Links: USA, Jordan, ICC
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2006 Mar 17 |
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese militia leader accused of conscripting and enlisting children aged under 15 for warfare (1998-2002), became the first suspect sent for trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands. Links: Netherlands, CongoDRC, ICC
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2006 Jun 14 |
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said his office had documented massacres with hundreds of victims in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region as well as hundreds of rape cases. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2006 Jun 15 |
Sudan said the International Criminal Court did not have jurisdiction over crimes in the violent Darfur region and no officials would be interrogated by the court. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2006 Aug 28 |
In the Netherlands prosecutors at the International Criminal Court filed their first indictment, charging Thomas Lubanga, a former Congolese warlord, for allegedly abducting and recruiting children as young as 10 to fight in Congo's brutal civil war. Links: Netherlands, CongoDRC, ICC
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2006 Oct 2 |
Foreign Minster Ruben Ramirez said that Paraguay and Washington would not renew a defense-cooperation agreement for 2007 over the South American country's refusal to grant US troops inside Paraguay immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court. Links: Paraguay, USA, ICC
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2006 |
Bosco Ntaganda, a former Congolese warlord, was first indicted on war crimes charges by the ICC, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands. The court accused Ntaganda of using child soldiers for fighting in Ituri, in northeastern Congo, from 2002 to 2003. Links: CongoDRC, ICC
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2007 Jan 29 |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled there was enough evidence against Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militiaman accused of recruiting child soldiers, to launch the new court's first trial. Links: CongoDRC, ICC
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2007 Feb 26 |
Sudan rejected the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court in pressing charges over the conflict in Darfur, still ravaged by war and famine four years after the violence erupted. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2007 Feb 27 |
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor in Netherlands named Ahmed Muhammed Harun, a former Sudanese junior minister, and Ali Mohammed Ali Abd-al-Rahmann (aka Ali Kushayb), a janjaweed leader, as suspects in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region. Sudan rejected the legitimacy of the ICC, insisting it would try Darfur war criminals. Links: Netherlands, Sudan, ICC
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2007 Apr 13 |
In Tanzania the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ordered that Michel Bagaragaza, the former head of Rwanda's national tea industry, be tried by a court in the Netherlands. He was accused of involvement in Rwanda’s 1994 mass slaughter. In Sep, 2009, Bagaragaza (64) pleaded guilty to complicity in the slaughter. In Nov he was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Links: Netherlands, Tanzania, Rwanda, ICC
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2007 May 2 |
The International Criminal Court in the Hague said it has issued arrest warrants for the Sudanese government's humanitarian affairs minister and a janjaweed militia leader suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur. Links: Netherlands, Sudan, ICC
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2007 May 22 |
The International Criminal Court prosecutor announced a war crimes investigation into hundreds of rapes and other violations in the Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003. The UN condemned the capture of two aid workers in the north-west of the CAR, saying the worsening security was hampering its humanitarian work in the country. Links: UN, Central African Rep., ICC
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2007 Sep 29 |
In Sudan a large force of rebels stormed an African Union peacekeeping base in Haskanita, Darfur, killing 12 soldiers and wounding 8 others in the biggest attack on the mission so far. More than 50 AU peacekeepers and support personnel were missing in action. In 2009 the International Criminal Court (ICC) said fighters commanded by Darfur rebel chief Bahar Idriss Abu Garda brutally murdered 12 African peacekeepers before looting their camp. In 2010 Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, suspected in the deadly attack, voluntarily surrendered in the Netherlands to the International Criminal Court to face war crimes charges. Links: Sudan, AU, ICC
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2007 Oct 22 |
Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga became only the second war crimes suspect to appear before the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Links: Netherlands, CongoDRC, ICC
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2007 Nov 7 |
The space shuttle Discovery returned to Kennedy Space Center after a 15-day mission building and repairing the international space station. Links: USA, NASA, Space, ICC
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2007 |
In 2011 prosecutors at the world war crimes court said Kenya's Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta organized deadly attacks on the opposition after disputed 2007 polls to keep the ruling party's power by "any means necessary." Some 1,400 lives were lost in the politically stoked fighting following the flawed elections. Links: Kenya, ICC
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2008 Feb 6 |
Congo arrested and turned over for trial Mathieu Ngudjolo, an army colonel and former rebel leader accused of leading a deadly 2003 attack on a village in the country's lawless east. Ngudjolo was expected to arrive at the International Criminal Court in the Hague the next day. Links: CongoDRC, ICC
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2008 Apr 29 |
The International Criminal Court in The Hague published an arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda (35), known as "the Terminator," a Congo militia leader wanted for allegedly using child soldiers. Links: Netherlands, CongoDRC, ICC
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2008 Jul 3 |
Former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba arrived in the Netherlands to face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court. Links: Netherlands, CongoDRC, ICC
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2008 Jul 12 |
The Arab League said it will hold crisis talks on Sudan after reports the International Criminal Court may seek Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's arrest, amid fears for peace efforts in Darfur. It would mark the first-ever bid by the ICC, based in The Hague, to charge a sitting head of state. The African Union said that plans by the ICC could jeopardize peace efforts in Darfur. Links: Sudan, AU, Arab League, ICC
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2008 Jul 13 |
In Sudan thousands of protesters chanting "Down, Down USA!" rallied in Khartoum after reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may seek the arrest of Sudan's president for alleged war crimes. A stampede among crowds of people attending a military graduation ceremony killed 17 people at the al-Merriekh Stadium in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum. The dead were mostly women and children with 3 dozen others injured. Links: USA, Sudan, Tragedy, ICC
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2008 Jul 14 |
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation. The filing marked the first time prosecutors at the world's first permanent, global war crimes court have issued charges against a sitting head of state. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2008 Jul 19 |
The Arab League criticized the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudan's president on genocide charges, saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur. Links: Sudan, Arab League, ICC
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2008 Jul 25 |
Sudan threatened to expel peacekeepers from Darfur if President Omar al-Beshir is indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2008 Jul 30 |
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic sat in a UN jail cell after being flown to the Netherlands in the dead of night to face charges of genocide against Muslims and Croats during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, Netherlands, ICC
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2008 Oct 13 |
Sudanese officials disclosed the arrest of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman (aka Ali Kushayb), a Janjaweed militia leader who was charged by the Int’l. Criminal court in 2007 for crimes against humanity. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2008 Nov 12 |
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, facing a possible indictment by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, announced a ceasefire in the region. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2008 Nov 20 |
The International Criminal Court prosecutor requested arrest warrants for rebels in Sudan's Darfur region, accusing them of storming an African Union camp and killing 12 peacekeepers in Sep, 2007. Links: Sudan, AU, ICC
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2008 |
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Ahmed Haroun, Sudan’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, on 51 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Sudan's western Darfur region in 2003 and 2004. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2009 Jan 26 |
In the Netherlands the first-ever trial of the International Criminal Court began at The Hague with Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia commander, denying he committed war crimes by recruiting hundreds of child soldiers to kill and rape. Links: Netherlands, CongoDRC, ICC
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2009 Jan 28 |
A Sudanese man, Mohammed el-Sari, was jailed for 17 years on charges of trying to help the International Criminal Court investigate a minister suspected of war crimes in Darfur. He was arrested in June accused of trying to solicit information about special police in Darfur, men trained and paid by the government and supervised by current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2009 Feb 14 |
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit held talks with Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir amid reports that the International Criminal Court has decided to issue a warrant for his arrest.. Links: Egypt, Sudan, ICC
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2009 Mar 4 |
The International Criminal Court at The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. He is the first sitting head of state the court has ordered arrested. The French medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was pulling staff out of Darfur after the Sudanese government ordered them to leave. Sudan ordered at least 10 humanitarian groups expelled from Darfur. Links: Sudan, ICC
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2009 Mar 16 |
Amr Moussa (b.1936), former Egyptian Foreign Minister and head of the Arab League, said AL countries will not carry out an International Criminal Court request to arrest Sudan's president on charges of war crimes in Darfur. Links: Sudan, Arab League, ICC
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2009 May 17 |
The International Criminal Court said Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, a Sudanese rebel leader, has turned himself in to face war crimes charges for an attack that killed 12 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur in September 2007. Links: Netherlands, Sudan, ICC
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2009 Jun 15 |
The Hague-based International Criminal Court ordered former Congolese rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape and pillaging. Links: Netherlands, CongoDRC, ICC
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2009 Nov 6 |
Turkey rebuffed an EU call to reconsider its decision to allow Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, who is accused of war crimes in Darfur, to attend a summit in Istanbul. Turkey has not signed the Rome Statute which set up the ICC and has said previously the ICC arrest warrant for Beshir could hurt moves to end the conflict in Darfur. Links: Turkey, EU, Sudan, ICC
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2009 Nov 18 |
The United States attended a meeting of the International Criminal Court's management board at The Hague for the first time in a sign it has stopped shunning the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal. Links: USA, Netherlands, ICC
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2010 Feb 3 |
At The Hague appeals judges said the International Criminal Court was wrong when it decided that Sudan's Pres. Omar al-Bashir can't be charged with genocide in Darfur. The unprecedented ruling could lead al-Bashir's indictment with humanity's worst crime. Links: Netherlands, Sudan, ICC
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2010 Apr 1 |
The International Criminal Court announced that it will investigate members of Kenya's two ruling parties on charges that they instigated violence that killed more than 1,000 people after the disputed 2007 presidential election. Links: Kenya, ICC
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