Today’s announcement by the International Criminal Court that it will investigate Colonel Gaddafi’s crimes against humanity is kind of historic. Because Gaddafi is easily the least black person the court has ever shown an interest in. Up until now it poked its legalistic snout exclusively into what used to be known as the “Heart of Darkness”, but which these days, due to the demands of PC, is referred to as “Africa’s trouble spots”. It has investigated five countries: Sudan, Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya (NB: the Serbs faced the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia). By turning its Dark Continent-obsessed gaze to Libya, and visiting its moral disapproval on a North African leader, the ICC has dragged itself, if not into the twenty-first century, then at least from the nineteenth into the twentieth. – Telegraph Blogs
Racist History of the ICC - Columbia Encyclopedia
The ICC inaugurated its first investigation in 2004 when it began looking into crimes in Congo (Kinshasa) and Uganda. Its first arrest warrants were issued (2005) for five leaders of the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army, which was accused of causing nearly 20 years of conflict. In 2005 the United Nations voted to refer war crimes cases in Sudan's Darfur region to the ICC, and the subsequent issuing (2009) of a warrant for the arrest of Sudan's President Omar Ahmed al-Bashir in connection with war crimes and other offenses in Darfur has been the ICC's most notable action. Among its other significant cases is that of former Congolese rebel leader and interim vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was arrested (2008) in Belgium and is facing trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, accused of leading rebels in a campaign of torture, rape, and murder in the Central African Republic. ICC judges also have authorized (2010) the investigation of those responsible for murder, rape, and forced displacement in the ethnic violence that followed the 2007 elections in Kenya.
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Racist History of the ICC - Columbia Encyclopedia
The ICC inaugurated its first investigation in 2004 when it began looking into crimes in Congo (Kinshasa) and Uganda. Its first arrest warrants were issued (2005) for five leaders of the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army, which was accused of causing nearly 20 years of conflict. In 2005 the United Nations voted to refer war crimes cases in Sudan's Darfur region to the ICC, and the subsequent issuing (2009) of a warrant for the arrest of Sudan's President Omar Ahmed al-Bashir in connection with war crimes and other offenses in Darfur has been the ICC's most notable action. Among its other significant cases is that of former Congolese rebel leader and interim vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was arrested (2008) in Belgium and is facing trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, accused of leading rebels in a campaign of torture, rape, and murder in the Central African Republic. ICC judges also have authorized (2010) the investigation of those responsible for murder, rape, and forced displacement in the ethnic violence that followed the 2007 elections in Kenya.
Additional information about the International Criminal Court
By 2002 China, Russia, and the U.S. had declined to participate in the ICC, and the U.S. had campaigned actively to have its citizens exempted from the court's jurisdiction.
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