Aiece from the Guardian about the birth today of "the long-awaited international criminal court"

"On Thursday, at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York, the international criminal court will be born. Enough states will ratify the Rome statute of the ICC to bring the total from its present 56 to above the critical number of 60 needed to activate the treaty. The statute, the text of which was drawn up and first signed in 1998, will then come into force on July 1. Acts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from then onwards can be investigated and prosecuted by the court. By 2003, the ICC will be up and running, with headquarters in the Hague."

Unfortunately Israel, along with the USA, China, Russia and a lot of others are refusing to be parties to it. And that's all in the article I linked to there. But it'd be much better to have a properly established court to hear these kind of cases rather than cobble together some special tribunal for particular cases, which effectively means war criminals getting away with it unless they come up against what can be dismissed as victors' justice.