All over the world there are conflicts in which the weak are pitted against the outrageously strong and the world's systems of retrospective justice give us the kind of verdict we saw against Charles Taylor at the UN-backed court at The Hague the other week but all this remains oddly unsatisfying.
It is that violence that Kenyatta now faces charges for at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Now that Mr Mladic is heading for a well-deserved trial in The Hague, the EU must stop making excuses.
In 1922, the Permanent Court of International Justice, sitting at the Hague in the Netherlands, held its first session.
In the Netherlands, the Hague is the seat of the Parliament of Pain.
The indictment, resignation and departure to The Hague of the prime minister has not, so far, provoked violence in Kosovo.
Officials with the ICC, based at The Hague in the Netherlands, said Thursday that Libya must make arrangements to hand him over immediately.
In The Hague, the director of Europol, which co-ordinates policing across the 27 European Union states, said he backed the Bulgarians' conclusions that Hezbollah was involved.
The arrest of Mladic and subsequent trial at The Hague offer the hope of some justice for those who lived through the terrors of the Balkan wars.
The squad met Queen Beatrix at her palace in The Hague in the morning, followed by a boat tour through Amsterdam's canals and a party in the city's Museum Square.
The ICTY's ruling comes three months after appeal judges at The Hague acquitted the former chief of the Yugoslav National Army of aiding and abetting atrocities by rebel Serbs in Bosnia.
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That is certainly the case - and it is an argument that is put into practice every day in The Hague at the international war crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The international community's most likely course would be to enlarge the competence and jurisdiction of the U.N. tribunals based at The Hague in the Netherlands investigating crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda.
The upcoming trial at The Hague is the most debated issue and has overshadowed all other campaign issues - unemployment, infrastructural development, improved social services and even the threat of terrorism from Islamists from neighbouring Somalia.
Hopes that border quarrels in the region might be settled by arbitration were raised when Eritrea and Yemen accepted the ruling of an international court in The Hague over the disputed Hanish islands in the Red Sea.
European governments agree this could potentially weaken the agreement on combating climate change to such an extent that it will have little effect, and they will be fighting hard at the Hague against the US, Japan and Australia which want maximum flexibility in the way targets can be achieved.
On Wednesday, Serbia's justice minister told war crimes prosecutors in The Hague that a new law would be passed allowing the extradition of Yugoslav citizens -- a move that could allow Milosevic to be tried in The Hague.
His running mate, William Ruto, also faces ICC charges at The Hague, in the Netherlands.
The dispute was one reason for the failure of The Hague talks on the Kyoto Protocol last November.
The Hague Convention is the principal international instrument concerning the protection of cultural property during armed conflict and military occupation.
He warned that "if the ministers were to pursue that course of action, they would end up like Milosevic at the Hague, " the radio reported.
The "context" in which a future referendum could potentially be held would be made clear in the speech, Mr Hague told the BBC on Sunday.
In January 2013 a new EU unit at Europol in The Hague, called The European Cyber Crime Centre, will start operations, focusing on tackling child sexual abuse online.
Milosevic's transfer to the Hague comes on the eve of an international conference of donors for Yugoslavia in Brussels, sponsored jointly by the European Union and the World Bank.
Cuba does not have an extradition treaty with the US and is not a signatory to the international treaty, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
For America, Brigitte Gabriel, has noted, a conference of police officers from many European countries was recently convened in The Hague to discuss the burgeoning problem of Muslim honor killings.
Senior people in the federal and Serbian governments have drafted legislation to provide for a trial in Belgrade under the joint authority of the Hague court and the Yugoslav judiciary.
The BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague says after the collapse of the case against his co-accused, there has been significant speculation that the charges against Mr Kenyatta may also be thrown out.
The country in 2003 sought United Nations support to set up the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague to probe the Liberia-aligned rebel groups that killed 50, 000 people around the turn of the century.
The U.S. and Cuba share no extradition agreement and the island nation is also not a signatory of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty for governmental cooperation on such cases.
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