THE THINKER Volume 69 / 2016 INTERNATIONAL In view of its juridical absurdity we should be taking the ICC very seriously. Prosecutor v. Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé at the ICC On 3 June 2013 a majority of judges at a pre-trial chamber in the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided that there was not enough evidence to take the former President of Côte d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to trial for crimes against humanity.1 This decision was taken despite the fact that a

The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), when it decides to open an investigation into grave human rights abuses writes up a situation report, which analyses the patterns of violence on the ground and identifies those most responsible for committing the crimes within a given crisis. In the current Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé ICC case however a recently leaked French diplomatic document reveals that on the 11 April 2011, five months before the opening of an