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| African Union Says ‘Up Yours’ to International Criminal Court |
| 2011-07-07 |
| The African Union is asking all of its 53 members not to buckle under to the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The International Criminal Court, or ICC, has never indicted anyone but Africans, and many consider it to be a tool of the United States. The Obama administration gives constant lip service to the Court, even though the U.S. is not a member of the ICC and has refused to make its own policies and military answerable to any outside authority. The African Union, meeting in Equatorial Guinea, said the ICC indictment against Gaddafi for alleged “crimes against humanity” complicates the task of bringing about a cease-fire in Libya. Twice, high level African delegations have attempted to forge a cease-fire, that would protect immigrant workers and refugees and allow for humanitarian aid to the civilian population. Both times, the rebels and their American and European backers rejected the African initiative out of hand – a display of western arrogance that was deeply humiliating to the African Union. The insult still stings. Although the African Union can’t do much to stop NATO from bombing an African nation at will, the AU decided, finally, that it can stand up to the International Criminal Court and its attempt to arrest Gaddafi, a former chairman and great benefactor of the African Union. The current AU chairman, Jean Ping, spoke for many member states when he said that the ICC “was discriminatory” in its prosecutions, and only went after Africans, disregarding crimes committed by the West in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. For that reason, the AU recommended that its members not cooperate with the execution of the warrant against Gaddafi. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 "African Union Says ‘Up Yours’ to International Criminal Court" Take a number and get in line. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-07 20:32 |
| #2 Bob Obama feels really safe. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2011-07-07 14:46 |
| #1 So does ICC chief prosecutor Luis Morena Ocampo, who wants to deputize the United States military to enforce the criminal court’s arrest warrants – regardless of what the African world or the Chinese world or anybody that is not European or American thinks. It’s sad to say, but at this point in history, the UN serves the Empire. I agree the icc by issuing a warrant, whatever it is worth, botched any chance of daffy finding an out. The rest I don't think I have the right prescription for, but do agree that the internationalists tend to go after the weakest/most vulnerable targets. Its why they can serve warrants on Africa or why they think they can get river rights in the USA but will not confront China or Russia. France and India go bad guy hunting and nothing, Texas wants to try a child rapist violent murderer and its an international incident. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-07-07 12:45 |