On 31 May, the Atlantic Council published an article entitled ‘Time to double down: ICC arrest warrants in Libya are a great start but Libyans deserve more’, by Christopher “Kip” Hale, a former Investigation Team Leader at the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya. In his article, Hale examines the arrest warrants recently issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes committed in Libya, arguing that while they could serve as ‘the accountability spark Libya desperately needs, the country’s culture of impunity will require more than arrest warrants from The Hague if it is to be uprooted’. He also makes recommendations to policy makers to avoid letting this opportunity ‘going to waste’, including the renewal of UN investigative bodies like the FFM and making amendments to US laws to support Libyan victims of the crimes targeted by the arrest warrants.
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