[quote=ecstacy]David Crane, the US lawyer who built the case against Liberia's former president Charles Taylor has condemned its cases against Kenya's president and vice-president, warning that the indictments could damage the fledgling international justice system.
He said his successors at The Hague had ignored political realities in pursuing the Kenyan prosecution, which he said "could be the beginning of a long slide into irrelevance for international law".
Crane said Moreno-Ocampo had a "political tin ear" and had been overly ambitious in his indictments.
Crane said the cases he built during three years of investigations in west Africa from 2002-05 had taken into account local politics as well as the law.
"Politics is the bright red thread of modern international law, a successful prosecution must factor in the international stage."
Crane said the ICC should have used the threat of its intervention to nudge for reform rather than launching prosecutions that the Kenyan elite would never support.
"It's a question of some justice versus no justice," he said. "If it's perceived that Kenyatta and Ruto have won then we're thrown back to the pre-Taylor era in Africa."
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Careful.
Read between the lines. 'Politics' instead of facts and law led them to Iraq, Libya and lately almost Syria.
This is an unabashed Pax Americana. Typical American.