Russia and China veto UN move to refer Syria to international criminal court

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10. If "the terrorists are responsible for almost all of the atrocities including the chemical weapons

attack", all the more reason to give the ICC jurisdiction over prosecuting those who have committed human rights abuses in Syria. Histirically the ICC has prosecuted perpetrators on all sides who have committed war crimes.

The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is a permanent international tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression (although jurisdiction for the crime of aggression will not be active until 2017 at the earliest).

Currently, 122 states are states parties to the Statute of the Court, including all of South America and Europe, most of Oceania and roughly half the countries in Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

Every progressive country in the world is a member of the ICC. That leaves out the US, Russia and China none of which qualify as progressive at any rate. It is these three countries and several smaller authoritarian countries that routinely resist the jurisdiction of the ICC.