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On Wednesday, acting on an ICC arrest warrant, Filipino President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. ordered the arrest of his predecessor and arch-nemesis. Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands following his dramatic arrest in Manila the day before over a brutal, years-long anti-drugs… Read more.
The International Criminal Court must file charges against Vladimir Putin. This, for the war crimes he’s lording over in Ukraine. Granted, it might take a revolution of the kind Vladimir Lenin mounted to arrest him. But they should file the charges and issue the arrest warrant as a matter of principle. This will help the… Read more.
Missed opportunities, misappropriations, and miscreants feature prominently in the story of post-colonial Africa. And this journal is replete with commentaries bemoaning it all. But the following quote pretty well sums up my abiding dismay: I just hope the damning irony is not lost on any proud African that, 50 years after decolonization, hundreds of Africans (men, women,… Read more.
I have been railing for years against the unfairness and incompetence of the International Criminal Court (ICC). I can cite such commentaries as “Alas, the ICC Charging Bashir of Sudan with Genocide Means Nothing!” July 15, 2008, “ICC Double Standards…,” June 29, 2011, “No Equitable Justice in ICC Prosecuting Kenya’s Kenyatta,” March 25, 2013, and… Read more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court, which rules on such grave charges as genocide and crimes against humanity… Putin’s decree, published on the Kremlin’s website, comes a day after the U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee approved a resolution condemning Russia’s ‘temporary occupation of Crimea’… Read more.
It never ceases to amaze me when putatively educated people betray their ignorance about the mission of and proceedings at the International Criminal Court (ICC). This ignorance stems from the fact that the ICC gets so little coverage in Western media, especially here in the United States. This coverage stems from the fact that, since it… Read more.
Last week the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) decided not to prosecute the president of Kenya for inciting ethnic violence that killed 1200 men, women, and children, and displaced 600,000. War crimes prosecutors dropped charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday… Judges at the Hague-based court had on Wednesday given the prosecution… Read more.
Here, in part, is the reasonable doubt I expressed last year after the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya’s founding father Jomo Kenyatta, on charges of crimes against humanity. I wonder what evidence the ICC possesses that ties Uhuru and the three other prominent Kenyans it indicted to the rapes and… Read more.
