A/HRC/4/7 page 15 (b) The Human Rights Council and, through it, the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council should: • Given the destitution of the judicial system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the scale and gravity of the crimes being perpetrated there for over a decade, establish by decision of the Security Council an international criminal tribunal for the Democratic Republic of the Congo or, failing that, joint criminal chambers within existing Congolese courts to hear cases involving crimes committed before 1 July 2002 and all subsequent crimes. -----