In recent years, an emerging international system of justice has begun to undermine the old calculus of tyrants and torturers. Recently they could commit their crimes with impunity, bludgeoning their nation's judicial system into submission. Now international war crimes tribunals have been created for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, national courts have indicted despots from other countries, and a permanent International Criminal Court will soon be established.
In recent years, an emerging international system of justice has begun to undermine the old calculus of tyrants and torturers. Recently they could commit their crimes with impunity, bludgeoning their nation's judicial system into submission. Now international war crimes tribunals have been created for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, national courts have indicted despots from other countries, and a permanent International Criminal Court will soon be established.