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Africa: Continent Stance On ICC ‘Justified’

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Original Post Date: 2011-07-26 Time: 01:00:03  Posted By: News Poster

By Tunomukwathi Asino
Dr Andrew Niikondo, the Head of the Public Management Department at the Polytechnic of Namibia, says that many countries in the world, especially in Africa, have “lost confidence in that institution called ICC, because its operations are biased”.

He says African countries’ grievances are justified, “because you have never heard any American president or British prime minister served with a warrant of arrest for committing crimes against humanity”, no matter how serious the crime.

He added that this indicates that the ICC is imposed on Africans and other developing countries including the former socialist countries.

“ICC also serves as an agent of NATO forces, because it is usually active in areas where NATO forces are invading or where the West is struggling to carve out economic interests,” he added.

Namibian Minister of Justice, Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, recently said Namibia would not comply with the warrants of arrest for beleaguered Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi and Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir who stand accused of crimes against humanity by the ICC.

The African Union (AU) has informed its members not to comply with the warrants. But some African countries vary – notably Uganda and Botswana have declined the call by the AU.

The Botswana foreign minister Phandu Skelemani was quoted in the media as saying the AU resolution was forced upon its members.

Niikondo continued: “George Bush and Tony Blair, for example, invaded Iraq lying that the country had weapons of mass destruction. Inquiries made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) proved their claim wrong, but they went on to attack Iraq and killed many people, probably more than what Saddam Hussein did, but the ICC has never issued any warrant to arrest Bush and Blair.”

He added: “Currently, the British, Italy and France are killing civilians in Libya, but the ICC only wants to arrest an African leader, Muammar Gaddafi, under the pretext that he has committed crimes against humanity such as killing civilians, while European invaders are regarded by the so-called ICC as being crystal clean.”

On what should the ICC do to ensure that it regains Africa’ confidence, Niikondo said: “I think their credibility is fatally damaged in Africa and it is not likely to revive it again.”

Original Source: New Era (Windhoek)
Original date published: 25 July 2011

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201107251726.html?viewall=1