To Catch a War Criminal

When the International Criminal Court, the ICC, was formed in 2002, its goals were big — to arrest and prosecute warlords for mass murders and genocide, for crimes committed against humanity.

But those big goals met with equally big challenges. How does a prosecutor in the Netherlands arrest a warlord at large in the jungles of Congo?

"The Reckoning," a new PBS documentary, tracks the struggle to make the International Criminal Court, from the courtrooms of The Hague to refugee camps in Uganda and the killing fields in Sudan.

This hour, On Point: Warlords, war crimes, and the International Criminal Court.

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Pamela Yates is director of "The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court," which was featured at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and is airing on PBS. She's a 2008 Guggenheim fellow and co-founder of Skylight Pictures, the documentary production company.
You can watch the film online at PBS.org through September 14.
Christine Chung was the first senior trial attorney to work in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. She directed the ICC investigation which led to the first ICC arrest warrants, for Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda's rebel "Lord's Resistance Army." She also worked on the ICC's investigations in Darfur and the Congo. She's now a partner at the law firm Quinn Emanuel.

Watch the trailer for "The Reckoning:"