ABSTRACT
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was created by the international community to try the most serious cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity.1
It is a reflection of the international community’s belief that such crimes violate the ‘rights and conscience . . . of particular victims and humanity as a whole’.2
Within the structure of the ICC, it is the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) that selects the situations to be investigated and the individuals to be prosecuted,3
as well as determining the charges to be brought against those individuals. The confluence of the Rome Statute’s admonition that only the most serious cases are to be brought before the ICC, the Statute’s emphasis on complementarity4
