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In concept: yes we should absolutely do them. It should be the remit of currently-existing society to seek justice, and on the stage of nation states one state committing injustice against the world cannot be resolved except by ad hoc systems like these enforced by the winners of an armed conflict.
In practice: it has mostly been a method by which the powerful countries consolidate their control over the rest of the world and launder their reputation. They say to us: "look at this long list of African and Middle Eastern warlords and all of the atrocities they committed with child soldiers and suicide bombers" while never prosecuting a single westerner for the atrocities they committed with spreadsheets and aerial drones. Milošević gets a trial for his role in the Yugoslav Wars, but nobody was held responsible for the sanctions against Iraq in the 90s which killed an estimated 500,000 children.