Rwanda’s Paul Kagame accuses ICC of bias against Africa
Rwandan leader says The Hague-based court has failed to mete out justice in any other part of the world except Africa. Rwandan President Paul Kagame has repeated his harsh criticism of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for what he calls open bias against Africa, saying it has failed to mete out justicein any other part of the world. “The ICC was supposed to address the whole world, but it ended up covering only Africa,” Kagame saidon Saturday at a meeting with British-Sudanese telecoms tycoon and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali.” From the time of its inception, I said there was a fraud basis on which it was set up and how it was going to be used. I told people that this would be a courtto try Africans, not people from across the world.”And I don’t believe I have been proven wrong.”Disproportionate targeting? The permanent court in the Netherlands was established by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court treaty in 1998 in order to prosecute ...