Cape Town – Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe,
who is also the African
Union (AU) chair, says
Africa must establish its
own International Criminal
Court (ICC) which would be
mandated to prosecute
Western leaders who have
committed crimes on the
continent.
According to the state-
owned Chronicle
newspaper , Mugabe said it
was high time Africa set up
a criminal court which
would seek justice for
"serious" war crimes and
crimes against humanity
committed by the West,
particularity during the
colonial era.
"They committed crimes,
colonial crimes galore –
the slaughter of our people
and all that
imprisonment... I have a
case, why was I imprisoned
for 11 years? We forgave
them, but perhaps we’ve
not done ourselves
justice... You set up the
ICC, we set our ICC to try
Europeans, to try Mr
[George] Bush and Mr
[Tony] Blair," Mugabe was
quoted as saying.
Mugabe said the
International Criminal
Court was a court for
Western countries,
dispensing Western
injustice on Africans.
Mass withdrawal
Mugabe said this while
addressing journalists at
the Harare international
airport where he was
seeing off his Malian
counterpart Ibrahim
Boubacar Keita after his
three-day state visit to the
southern African country.
Keita concurred, adding it
was "up to Africans, not
Europeans or Americans to
judge their leaders".
Mugabe's remarks came a
few days after Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir
evaded an ICC arrest order
by leaving early from an
African Union summit that
was held in Johannesburg.
At the summit, Mugabe
wanted a mass withdrawal
of African states from the
ICC.
The veteran leader harshly
criticised the ICC after Al-
Bashir dodged his arrest,
saying the international
court was not wanted in
Africa .
"This is not the
headquarters of the ICC,
we do not want it in this
region at all," Mugabe
said.
Mugabe also took a swipe
at the "foreign" funded
non-governmental
organisations (NGOs),
whom he said were angling
for Al-Bashir’s arrest.
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This Mugabe ehnnnn

I hate south african

I hate south african eh,they want to be comparing themselve wit Us

Them for just rename ICC to ACC( african criminal court) since na only Africans them de prosecute

loomer:
Them for just rename ICC to ACC( african criminal court) since na only Africans them de prosecute

i de tell u

I have much respect for Mugabe for his extreme Africanism.

If Thomas Sankara were to be alive today, he would have found a good partner in Mugabe and Africa would have been revolutionised.

I support African ICC.

This man really have a point. We're not their bicth nor their slave.

piicity:
I hate south african

piicity:
I hate south african eh,they want to be comparing themselve wit Us

What has south Africa got to do with this?

Mugabe should create better lives for Zimbabwe's before thinking of having icc in Africa;

Stupid man

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:


What has south Africa got to do with this?

They are all south Africans

IdiAmin1:
I have much respect for Mugabe for his extreme Africanism.

If Thomas Sankara were to be alive today, he would have found a good partner in Mugabe and Africa would have been revolutionised.

I support African ICC.

You want ICc when we cannot fix our own problems even with common things like good roads and pure water for Africa , your problem now is fighting the white; get over yourself bro

Much as I don't like Mugabe, I'm with him on this one.

Until ICC tries Bush and Blair, everything they do to me would just be hypocritical.

piicity:
I hate south african eh,they want to be comparing themselve wit Us

comparing themselves with the US or you?

Way to go mugabe.afterall he as nothing to loose.he is a nonegenarian.

Joinin ICC is gud just dat the west hate Africans.

How funny!! Just like late Gaddafi, Mugabe will never be forgotten in Africa because of his courage and controversial nature. Much as I like Mugabe, I feel he should step down because his people are dying of his bad and sit-tight leadership. Mugabe is the most educated president in the world; 7 Bscs and 2 Mscs. #Fact. Lol