#ICCTrialsKE Via Gordon Teti Why mass pull-out from International Criminal Court failed? At the Council of Ministers meeting on Friday, October 11, 2013 in Addis Aba Aba, Ethiopia, West and South Africa countries warned that any resolution to withdraw will be ill-timed, arguing that in any case, most countries are members of the ICC as individual and not as a group. The Council of Ministers set the agenda that was debated and adopted by the the African dictators at the summit and failure to include giving Uhuru Kenyatta impunity from prosecution on the agenda left only dictators from East Africa countries, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda as the only proponents for mass withdrawal. The Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti blamed the absence of certain nations from the AU extraordinary summit that took place on Saturday, October 12, 2013 in Ethiopia, for the failure to call for a mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. Mr. Karti disclosed that a number African countries ashamed of being seeing to be supporting mass murder, rape and genocide, on Friday’s ministerial meeting adopted stances that “generally weakened” the African position. It is not by coincidence that opposition towards the 11-year-old ICC runs deepest in East Africa since two of the region’s dictators, Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir and Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta – have been indicted, while William Ruto who is suspected to have orchestrated the burning to death of women and children in Kiambaa church in Eldoret in January 2008 is already on trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:35:05 +0000
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