Thank you, Chair.
Welcome. I met you, as I said, and I had the privilege of visiting you at your head office in The Hague and saw you in action.
There are concerns and questions that many raise in reference to your court. Your court is supposed to give confidence to victims of genocide and others that somebody will be brought to justice. But as you look around, the concern is, what about governments themselves that have spotty records? For example, we're just now hearing that the Government of Uganda may make a deal with the Lord's Resistance Army to give its leader a safe passage, and yet we have criminal arrest warrants for him. Then there is what you have come out with in Darfur as well with the Government of Sudan.
But let me give an example of one area that I think will say what I'm trying to say, and that's in Sri Lanka. The Tamil Tigers have been bad. They have been using suicide bombers, children, and everything, and yet the leader of the Tamil Tigers is not considered a war criminal. Nobody has ever said that, despite the facts. On the other hand, the Government of Sri Lanka itself does not have a good human rights record, which brought out this conflict in the first place. So you have this situation being created over there in Sri Lanka that is from both sides--a rebel army that is breaking all the rules and a government that still needs a lot of improvement on human rights.
Of course, the other country that falls close to that is Burma. In Burma you have the military regime, the junta, that is not giving human rights and these things.
All of these areas seem to escape from your court and it seems to focus only on areas with high political things or be easygoing on these things, which is what I'm trying to get at. This is one of the criticisms that comes in here.
How do you see your court addressing a situation like what I've just described here?