The International Criminal Court (ICC) dismissed a request to open an investigation into “systemic kidnappings in Nigeria” this week, media in the country report, on the grounds that the petition lacked “any legal basis.”
The government of Nigeria, which has for over a decade downplayed the growing problem of genocidal jihadist violence in the country, complained following the dismissal that the court should never have entertained the request in the first place, as it should have gone to the ICC’s top prosecutor. The prosecutor position at the global court is currently empty after Prosecutor Karim Khan, who made a name for himself after…
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