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2012   By Jens Iverson, Leiden University        The unique
horrors of forcing children to kill, the particular structural
threat of election violence, the specific values threatened by
forced marriage – choosing to prioritize addressing one of these
at the expense of another must unfortunately be done by the
decision makers at the OTP, and yet cannot be fully evaluated
either through a legal or political framework.  Even combined,
the legal and political frameworks merely provide a needlessly
binary worldview.  This dichotomy places the OTP in a position
of unnecessary opacity with respect to explaining their
choices.  They cannot discuss non-legal values easily without
being subject to the critique of politicization.  So,
functionally, they are quiet.  The Office of the Prosecutor
(OTP) of the International Criminal Court is caught in a
rhetorical trap.  No one realistically expects that it behaves
as a creature of pure logic, able to rationalize