African Union (AU) chairman and Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe 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.
Mugabe was quoted as saying:; “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’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.
SOURCE: AFRICAN LEADERSHIP MAGAZINE BLOG via RICHMOND HEWTON
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