Oh, Bangladesh

Kevin Heller thinks that Bangladesh's State Minister for Liberation Affairs ought to have done his homework before publicly stating that it will request that the ICC try Pakistani troops for war crimes that allegedly took place during the country's war of liberation:

"A good idea in theory, to be sure. But two small practical problems: neither Bangladesh nor Pakistan is a member of the ICC, and Bangladesh’s war for liberation ended — successfully — in 1971, 31 years before the beginning of the ICC’s temporal jurisdiction"

Law Fail.

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