The ICC and situation in Iraq

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This article sets out the situation in Iraq, crimes committed in its territory, responsibility of the leaders, in spite of the court establish to fight the impunity, but we found the ICC did not do anything with respect to investigate or prosecute the persons who committed these atrocity, this result emphasis the impunity, and harm the victim who had found themselves without any protections (1).

1–Preface: Due to The importance of the situation in Iraq, we have seen that we should discuss the analysis of the OTP, and the reasons behind his refusal to initiate an investigation into the situation in Iraq and the arguments in justifying this rejection, so we will discuss this with analysis and criticism in some points of the report of the prosecutor.

The (office of the prosecutor) OTP received about 404 communications concerning the situation in Iraq and these complaints received from citizens and organizations that expressing their concern about the military operations and what accompany these operations of loss of life (2).