By Hans Köchler
President of the International Progress Organization, Professor at the University of Innsbruck.
I want to talk about the manipulation of international law by making particular reference to the exploitation of the International Criminal Court in the Libyan case as it developed this year.
I fully share the analysis of Roland Dumas on the international system and the transformation of the goals of the Atlantic Alliance. Regarding the manipulation, I see two aspects.
First, the Security Council of the UN was used as a tool by the member countries of NATO to justify what is, in fact, a colonial-style intervention.
The other aspect that I would like to highlight concerns the International Criminal Court which, in turn, has been exploited, that is to say, used as an instrument by the Security Council to give this military operation a legal and humanitarian covering.
