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This article focuses on amnesty and its relationship with the International Criminal Court (the ICC). Although the grant of amnesties to international crimes and gross human rights violations has increasingly been restricted, an absolute prohibition on amnesties in international law has not yet emerged. The Rome Statute does not include an amnesty provision despite it is incompatible with the raison d’être of the ICC. This article will review certain provisions of the Rome Statute that might allow the ICC to defer the national mechanisms involving amnesties.