a standard and that standard is that war crimes need to be investigated wherever they occur but because internationaljustice is selective that should not be confused with the process being completely illegitimate and still looking i were crimes it does not take away the severity of those accusations and the seriousness of the in question. if the international criminal court decided we will go ahead with investigating certain individuals, would it begin the work while the conflict was still going on? it's already started its investigation. international criminal justice investigation. international criminaljustice will investigation. international criminal justice will affect the work of the former tribunal for yugoslavia and they operate very slowly so i would certainly expect the conflict had ended before we start to have things like indictments being issued and last week we saw indictments released by the icc in relation to georgia and there is an example if we look at