Return to Transcripts main page   Head of International Criminal
Court Discusses Past and Future Cases  Aired December 4, 2009 -
15:00:00   ET    CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight, a
question the world has been grappling with since Nuremburg and
the Nazi trials after World War II: How do we seek
accountability for the world's worst crimes?   Our focus
tonight: the search for global justice. How do people get
justice for crimes against their humanity?  After years of
negotiations, the International Criminal Court was established
in 2002. Its first high-profile indictment was brought against
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan in 2008, and its first trial
got underway earlier this year of a Congolese militia leader
charged with conscripting children into his army.  Luis Moreno-
Ocampo is prosecutor of the ICC. He first made his name back in
the 1980s prosecuting the military junta in his own country,
Argentina, for killing between 10,000 and 30,000 civilians in
the so-called dirty war. Now that his net reac