The ICJ expresses its profound sorrow at the death of the UN Representative in Iraq and High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and all of his colleagues and other civilians killed yesterday in Baghdad.
The ICJ condemns the illegal invasion of Iraq in the clear absence of Security Council authority – this constitutes a great leap backward in the international rule of law.
The ICJ today expressed its deep dismay that a small number of states are poised to launch an outright illegal invasion of Iraq, which amounts to a war of aggression.
The ICJ two-year study of the Iraqi legal system, entitled “Iraq and the Rule of Law,” pinpoints structural defects in the Iraqi system of justice, which can be considered as characteristic of similar one-party States.
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