ABSTRACT
When the drafting of the Statute started within the Preparatory Committee, the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was viewed primarily as a means of excluding national sovereignty, to the extent feasible, to the benefit of objective truth and justice. The idea was, in general terms, that the ICC would be an institution which would have the possibility to disregard national frontiers in order to be able to bring those accused of grave crimes to justice, under its close scrutiny and control and by applying highest standards of objectivity. Some months later events seem to have bypassed people. It seems, indeed, that in this short period of time which has elapsed from those discussions, political realities have created a drastically different environment. It should be considered imperative that those who are now sensitive enough to take protection of human rights should also be consistent enough to be first to join in Statute and promote its creation by all means.
