ICC CASES
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLMASSACRES in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) civil war and the murky business dealings that have fuelled the conflict are to be the first focus of the International Criminal Court (ICC), its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said. The court can act on its own initiative in the DRC as it is a state party to the court and there is doubt that its government is able to prosecute crime throughout its territory. As a result, the prosecutor has ordered investigators to look into reports that 5,000 civilians were killed in Ituri, in the ...
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