L
LequteMan
Guest
African leaders at the African Union summit have thrown their weight behind a Kenyan proposal pushing for a pullout from the International Criminal Court.
The AU, led in particular by Kenya, accused the court of unfairly targeting Africans for prosecution as the majority of its cases come from the continent.
According a Kenyal presidential statement, the decision is a “proposal…for the AU to develop a road map for the withdrawal of African nations”, a Kenyan presidential statement read.
“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,” Uhuru Kenyatta said.
President Idriss Deby of Chad, who doubles as African Union chairman faulted 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 on Sunday.
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.
Daily Post
The AU, led in particular by Kenya, accused the court of unfairly targeting Africans for prosecution as the majority of its cases come from the continent.
According a Kenyal presidential statement, the decision is a “proposal…for the AU to develop a road map for the withdrawal of African nations”, a Kenyan presidential statement read.
“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,” Uhuru Kenyatta said.
President Idriss Deby of Chad, who doubles as African Union chairman faulted 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 on Sunday.
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.
Daily Post
