ICC Offers Hope to Afghanistan’s Victims

Afghans who are skeptical about whether the US-Taliban agreement and planned intra-Afghan peace talks can deliver a better future, now have reason to believe that justice might not be squandered in the process. Today, judges on the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorized the court’s prosecutor to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan since May 1, 2003. Expand Afghan family leaves site of attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 22, 2016. © 2016 Reuters It was a rocky road to get here. In November 2017, after a more than 10-year analysis of the…

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