do we really need an International Criminal Court?

The United Nations has authority to set up tribunals to address criminal offenders in global society. Therefore, do we really need an International Criminal Court?


The International Criminal Court is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community.
However, tribunals were established to try crimes committed only within a specific time-frame and during a specific conflict, there was general agreement that an independent, permanent criminal court was needed. On 17 July 1998, the international community reached an historic milestone when 120 States adopted the Rome Statute, the legal basis for establishing the permanent International Criminal Court.
I believe that we do need the ICC.
I agree with your assessment that we need a spcialized international criminal court defining the worst crimes of humanity as genocide, war crimes , and crimes against humanity,specifically defined in the Rome Statute and agreed upon by 120 nations.The UN tribunals have ad hoc situations with other than these crimes during a specific time of conflict with statutes of limitation. The ICC still adddresses a specific need spelled out by the mass incidents of genocide and war crimes during and after WWII, and hence the Hague tribunal. The uniqunessof the scenarios and crimes necessitated the Hague tribunal where specificity of the statute links with the UN charter a unprecedented and specific attention is paid to those crimes as well as a new foruth class of crimes of aggression.