President, International Criminal Court
As eyes turn to Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's handling
of cases against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed
el Beshir, Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba
and the authors of Kenya's 2007 post-election violence,
a South Korean judge runs things behind the scenes at the
International Criminal Court. ICC President Song Sang-hyun
is in charge of administration and chooses which judges sit on
which panels. Acknowledging that his organisation faces cases
of tremendous political significance, Song pledged to the United
Nations General Assembly in late October that the ICC's judges
would act with conscientious impartiality....
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