Justice for all? Behind US targeting of international court.

Under a different administration, and despite its lack of membership in the court, the United States might be assisting the International Criminal Court in its investigation of an alleged genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority at the hands of the country’s military in 2017.

The George W. Bush administration assisted the Hague-based court – created in 1998 to try cases of international war crimes and crimes against humanity – in investigating the genocide in Darfur, providing among other things satellite imagery to help locate suspected mass graves.

The Obama administration deployed special forces to Uganda in 2011 to help track down a leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, wanted by the court for suspected crimes against humanity, and shared intelligence of interest for other investigations.

But that past cooperation has turned into virulent antagonism under President Donald Trump. Last week the

Cooperation, in partJohn Bolton’s stanceSanctions “counterproductive”