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Two major developments in international criminal justice are discussed in this paper. On 14 July 2008, an arrest warrant was sought by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court against Omar al-Bashir, serving president of Sudan, for genocide, murder, & crimes against humanity. Just a week later, on 21 July, Radovan Karadzic, former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, was arrested in Belgrade & flown to The Hague, Netherlands, to face the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Most people welcomed fugitive Karadzic's arrest, but the reasoning for the warrant for al-Bashir was refuted by the Arab League & many African governments, leading to calls for the UN Security Council to suspend ICC proceedings in this case for a year. In this light, the author "explores key decisions creating a new framework for international criminal justice since the early 1990s & assess whether they are proving meaningful over time.". Adapted from the source document.