8 Examples of How the International Criminal Court Unfairly Targets Africa While Ignoring Atrocities Caused by Some Western Nations
via warisacrime.org
Punishing African Genocides While Disregarding European Ethnic Killings
Last year, the ICC accused Omar Hassan Ahmad al Bashir, the president of Sudan, of committing 10 counts of genocide. The death toll in Darfur has been estimated to be 300,000. And, while this is an unfortunate situation, the ICC has hesitated to address war crimes associated with the United Kingdom. British troops committed war crimes during the invasion of Iraq. In fact, the Iraq Body Count project declared that British forces killed roughly 11,000 innocent civilians over the course of five years.
Over-Criminalizing Africans While Under-Criminalizing Europeans
African countries make up nearly 25 percent of the ICC. Yet, according to Mohammad Baseer, a writer for africanholocaust.net, of all the individuals who have been prosecuted ICC, 90 percent of them have been African. This statistic is the very reason behind the African Union’s attack of the ICC. The African members of the AU are not necessarily against the prosecution of African leaders; they are rather against the essential exemption of global European crimes. Furthermore, while African leaders and politicians have voiced their concerns, Hailemariam Desalegn, the prime minister of Ethiopia, has expressed that the ICC has completely disregarded them.
