African leaders have backed a Kenyan proposal pushing for a pullout from the International Criminal Court, leaders said Sunday, repeating claims it unfairly targets the continent. Chad’s President Idriss Deby, elected African Union chairman at the two-day summit, criticised the court for focusing its efforts on African leaders. “Elsewhere in the world, many things happen — many flagrant violations of human rights — but nobody cares,” Deby said at the close of the summit late Sunday, which had an official theme of protecting human rights.

No legally binding decision was made, and the decision to leave the ICC’s founding Rome Statute is up to an individual nation. The decision is a “proposal…for the AU to develop a road map for the withdrawal of African nations”, a Kenyan presidential statement read. The war crimes trial of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo began last week, rekindling a bitter row across Africa over the international justice system.

Set up in 2002 as the last resort to try war criminals and perpetrators of genocide never tried at home, the ICC has opened probes involving eight nations, all of them African: Kenya, Ivory Coast, Libya, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda and Mali. The AU, led in particular by Kenya, has accused the court of unfairly targeting Africans for prosecution as the majority of its cases come from the continent.

This included a failed case to try Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and a faltering case against his deputy William Ruto, for allegedly masterminding deadly post-election violence in the east African country in 2007-2008 in which some 1,200 people died. “We refuse to be carried along in a vehicle that has strayed off course to the detriment of our sovereignty, security and dignity as Africans,” Kenyatta said in a statement.

In November 2015, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom, speaking for the AU at an annual meeting between the 123 countries that have signed up to the Hague-based ICC’s founding statute, said it was “no longer a court for all.” Around one-third of its member states are in Africa. But while leaders criticised the court, others said that was a mistake.

“Leaving the ICC with no credible mechanism for justice for mass crimes in sight would be an error of colossal proportions,” Kenya’s Daily Nation said in an editorial. “It is far better for member states to stay in the court and advocate reforms, rather than bolting and leaving millions on the continent unprotected by an international court which can step in when national institutions fail.”

MonPro:
The African leaders should shut the hell up. They are the the most animalistic creatures before God. 89% of extrajudicial killings sanctioned by governments around the world happen in Africa.

They gag the press, they kill unarmed protesters, make political opponents disappear and now they want to run from their shadows so they can perpetuate themselves in power. No way!

They can't manufacture a single bullet, but they can run to the same Americans and European government to get guns with which they kill their own people. Damn them all!

So what now? You wanna acquire US and Euro weapons but don't want to be told how to be apply caution using those weapons on your people? Did they make bullets for you to perpetuate yourself in power?

Listen up, you damned African apes that call yourselves leaders, if you want to leave the ICC, then don't use a single weapon manufactured by sane humans in the west. Go back to using your catapults, bows and arrows as it was in the beginning, only on that condition may you leave the ICC.

As long as Al-Bashir used western- manufactured weapons to kill millions of his political opponents, he remains a fugitive. He must face ICC and give account of his wickedly use of those weapons. We don't care if sudan is a member of ICC or not. Hope you are also listening Mr Buhari? Don't think you will be given express freedom to kill people as you want.

God help you empty-skulled, thieving African leaders as you go back to your bows and arrows.

mirabel001:
they can do dat after buhari case...

PhockPhockMan:




Abi?
I thought they said he's not a Coward. I can remember vividly that during jonathan's era, this issue came up , he blocked it, simply because he has no skeleton in his cupboard.
Just eight months, Buhari has created so many ghosts now haunting him.



NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED.

MonPro:
The African leaders should shut the hell up. They are the the most animalistic creatures before God. 89% of extrajudicial killings sanctioned by governments around the world happen in Africa.

They gag the press, they kill unarmed protesters, make political opponents disappear and now they want to run from their shadows so they can perpetuate themselves in power. No way!

They can't manufacture a single bullet, but they can run to the same Americans and European government to get guns with which they kill their own people. Damn them all!

So what now? You wanna acquire US and Euro weapons but don't want to be told how to be apply caution using those weapons on your people? Did they make bullets for you to perpetuate yourself in power?

Listen up, you damned African apes that call yourselves leaders, if you want to leave the ICC, then don't use a single weapon manufactured by sane humans in the west. Go back to using your catapults, bows and arrows as it was in the beginning, only on that condition may you leave the ICC.

As long as Al-Bashir used western- manufactured weapons to kill his political opponents, he remains a fugitive. He must face ICC and give account of his wickedly use of those weapons. We don't care if sudan is a member of ICC or not. Hope you are also listening Mr Buhari? Don't think you will be given express freedom to kill people as you want.

God help you empty-skulled, thieving and autocratic African leaders as you go back to your bows and arrows.

MonPro:
The African leaders should shut the hell up. They are the the most animalistic creatures before God. 89% of extrajudicial killings sanctioned by governments around the world happen in Africa.

They gag the press, they kill unarmed protesters, make political opponents disappear and now they want to run from their shadows so they can perpetuate themselves in power. No way!

They can't manufacture a single bullet, but they can run to the same Americans and European government to get guns with which they kill their own people. Damn them all!

So what now? You wanna acquire US and Euro weapons but don't want to be told how to be apply caution using those weapons on your people? Did they make bullets for you to perpetuate yourself in power?

Listen up, you damned African apes that call yourselves leaders, if you want to leave the ICC, then don't use a single weapon manufactured by sane humans in the west. Go back to using your catapults, bows and arrows as it was in the beginning, only on that condition may you leave the ICC.

As long as Al-Bashir used western- manufactured weapons to kill his political opponents, he remains a fugitive. He must face ICC and give account of his wickedly use of those weapons. We don't care if sudan is a member of ICC or not. Hope you are also listening Mr Buhari? Don't think you will be given express freedom to kill people as you want.

God help you empty-skulled, thieving and autocratic African leaders as you go back to your bows and arrows.

MonPro:
[s]The African leaders should shut the hell up. They are the the most animalistic creatures before God. 89% of extrajudicial killings sanctioned by governments around the world happen in Africa.

They gag the press, they kill unarmed protesters, make political opponents disappear and now they want to run from their shadows so they can perpetuate themselves in power. No way!

They can't manufacture a single bullet, but they can run to the same Americans and European government to get guns with which they kill their own people. Damn them all!

So what now? You wanna acquire US and Euro weapons but don't want to be told how to be apply caution using those weapons on your people? Did they make bullets for you to perpetuate yourself in power?

Listen up, you damned African apes that call yourselves leaders, if you want to leave the ICC, then don't use a single weapon manufactured by sane humans in the west. Go back to using your catapults, bows and arrows as it was in the beginning, only on that condition may you leave the ICC.

As long as Al-Bashir used western- manufactured weapons to kill his political opponents, he remains a fugitive. He must face ICC and give account of his wickedly use of those weapons. We don't care if sudan is a member of ICC or not. Hope you are also listening Mr Buhari? Don't think you will be given express freedom to kill people as you want.

God help you empty-skulled, thieving and autocratic African leaders as you go back to your bows and arrows.




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Miami11:
[s]I support Africans move out of that court

George Bush and Putin are not there
Why
It's only Africans being prosecuted there left and right[/s]

kossyablaze:
I knw Bubu would spearhead this move