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In preparing to resume my investigation, if authorisation is granted, I am cognizant of the limited resources available to my Office relative to the scale and nature of crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court that are being or have been committed in various parts of the world. I have therefore decided to focus my Office\u2019s investigations in Afghanistan on crimes allegedly committed by the Taliban and the Islamic State \u2013 Khorasan Province (\u201cIS-K\u201d) and to deprioritise other aspects of this investigation. —Karim A. A. Khan QC, 27 September 2021<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n

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ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan, Q.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a well-crafted public relations message<\/a>, ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan QC keeps hope alive for the Afghan victims of Article 5 crimes and atrocities suffered over the past twenty years. What a relief. Hooray!<\/p>\n

But hold on.<\/p>\n

With panache and dexterous prose, in true fashion of a polished and adroit diplomat, he abandons the investigation against US servicemen and personnel by first claiming that it was really a matter of complementarity. Alluding that the Afghan authorities had effectively taken over the investigation by virtue of asking the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) under Article 18(2) of the Rome Statute to take a one year hiatus<\/a> \u2013 a specious claim at best since Afghanistan was neither able nor willing when considering the US\u2019s opposition to such investigations, not to mention Afghanistan\u2019s reliance on US armed forces to keep the Taliban at bay despite US President Trump\u2019s disastrous agreement<\/a> with the Taliban \u2013 Khan would have us believe that the investigation was going oh-so-well up until the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. But despair not: \u201cThis is not to suggest that there can never be any prospect of adequate and effective proceedings in Afghanistan, carried out by State authorities in compliance with the Statute. They are not, however, available in Afghanistan at this time. I remain willing to constructively engage with national authorities in accordance with the principle of complementarity.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

His excuse (calling it an explanation would obscure the concealment of his intent) is that he has bigger fish to fry, namely the Taliban and IS-K, and thus, for the sake of prioritization and rationalization of resources, his office will focus on the most recent and ongoing crimes committed and being (or have yet to be) committed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Khan\u2019s message is a patently deceptive feel-good justification for inaction.\u00a0 A sleight of hand.\u00a0 Smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n

Even with Article 18(2) having kicked in, Khan is pulling a con. There is no indication that the OTP washed its hands of the investigation former ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda doggedly pursued to hold US servicemen and personnel to account for crimes allegedly committed in Afghanistan. Khan would have us believe that the baton was handed off to the Afghan authorities, thus absolving the OTP of any investigative responsibilities. Nonsense.<\/p>\n

As tempting as it may be to embrace Khan\u2019s shrewdly constructed statement, if Afghanistan was indeed carrying out legitimate and credible investigations that would lead to prosecutions in Afghanistan should the evidence warrant such, then why would Khan feel the need to comment on this matter? In doing so, he not only pivots by shifting the onus onto Afghanistan, but creates the illusion that his office will, with all deliberate speed, go after the Taliban and IS-K \u2013 hence his \u201capplication for an expedited order\u201d to resume the investigation of the Situation in Afghanistan. But notice, he is not asking to resume the investigation related to US servicemen and personnel. That investigation he leaves to the Afghan authorities for the distant future. As for using the rationalization of resources for his pivot, it is as transparently illusory as his eloquence is a masterful artful dodge.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I do not blame Khan for wanting to make nice with the saner and more engaging US administration under President Biden (see here<\/a> and here<\/a> for the\u00a0 wacky and hostile attacks by US President Trump and his minions on the ICC and Bensouda). I also do not blame him for wanting to extricate the OTP from the quagmire (and quandary) it found itself in because of Bensouda\u2019s courageous \u2013 or some may say imprudent, if not foolhardy \u2013 decision to press for investigations against US forces and personnel for crimes committed in Afghanistan. It certainly was not a low-hanging fruit.<\/p>\n

The US was never going to cooperate (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>), precious resources would need to be expended for a righteous but unattainable cause \u2013 think of the Pre-Trial Chamber\u2019s clever attempt<\/a> to usurp the \u201cin the interest of justice\u201d discretionary authority accorded solely to the Prosecutor, which was ultimately reversed<\/a> by the Appeals Chamber. So why not cozy up to the US and hope for future cooperation and maybe assistance in matters of higher gravity? Looking at it from this perspective, his volte-face<\/em> on the investigation of the Situation in Afghanistan appears bold, pragmatic, realpolitik; politically expedient and opportunistic as it may be, it is arguably sound.<\/p>\n

So where is the rub?<\/p>\n

Well, why not level with the victims? Why the fairy tale that somehow the OTP will seriously devote its time and resources to do an actual, honest-to-goodness investigation against the Taliban and IS-K for events in Afghanistan, when, in fact, it is patently clear that it is utterly impossible and assuredly not a prudent use (prioritization) of the limited resources of his Office.<\/p>\n

Call a spade what it is. And yes, come clean and state the obvious: the US (because it is the US) will get a pass from the OTP under my (Khan\u2019s) watch. But to use the current events as a means of peddling false hope and fairy tales insults our intelligence. Bluntly, Khan\u2019s application for an expedited order<\/em> before the Pre-Trial Chamber II is theater of the absurd<\/em> masquerading as prosecutorial acumen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But hey, the congratulatory fanfare on social media over Khan\u2019s statement was smashing; the narrative as framed paid dividends. Query whether the abandoned victims will view Khan\u2019s request for an expedited order and his attendant statement as just an appeasement that wantonly appeases.<\/p>\n

\"Don't<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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