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Trump authorizes sanctions against ICC officials who prosecute US troops

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 04, 2020, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley (L) chats with US President Donald Trump after he delivered the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. – Milley said on June 11, 2020, he was wrong to join President Donald Trump on a walk across a park violently cleared of protesters for a photo opportunity near the White House. “I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of military involvement in domestic politics,” Milley said of the controversial June 1 incident. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)



President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered sanctions against any official at the International Criminal Court who prosecutes US troops as the tribunal looks at alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

“The International Criminal Court’s actions are an attack on the rights of the American people and threaten to infringe upon our national sovereignty,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.

She alleged: “We have strong reason to believe there is corruption and misconduct at the highest levels of the International Criminal Court Office of the prosecutor, calling into question the integrity of its investigation into American service members.”

Trump has been tearing down global institutions he sees as hindering his administration’s interests, recently ordering a pullout from the World Health Organization over its coronavirus response.

The Trump administration has been livid over the Hague-based International Criminal Court’s investigation into atrocities in Afghanistan’s long-running war, which could involve US forces.

The administration last year revoked the US visa of the court’s chief prosecutor, Gambian-born Fatou Bensouda, to demand that she end the probe.

But judges in March said the investigation could go ahead, overturning an initial rejection of Bensouda’s request.

The United States is not a part of the court and under the previous administration of George W. Bush actively encouraged countries to shun it.





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