On a visit to neighbouring Kenya, Yoweri Museveni says International Criminal Court is a tool for "oppressing Africa".
Al-Jazeera - 12 Dec 2014
oweri Museveni, the Ugandan president, has called on African nations
to pull out of the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court,
amid accusations that it unfairly targets Africans.
Museveni's comments, made at a ceremony to mark Kenya's 51 years of
independence from Britain, came a week after the chief prosecutor at the
Hague-based court dropped crimes-against-humanity charges against
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Museveni criticised the ICC for continuing with Kenya's deputy
president William Ruto's case despite an African Union (AU) resolution
that no sitting African head of state or deputy should be tried at the
court.
"I will bring a motion to the African Union's next session. I want
all of us to get out of that court of the West. Let them [Westerners]
stay with their court," he said in Swahili.
Although prosecutors dropped charges against Kenyatta, the trial of Ruto on similar charges is under way at the ICC.
"With connivance, they are putting Deputy President Ruto, someone who
has been elected by Kenyans, in front of the court there in Europe,"
Museveni said
The AU is scheduled to hold its annual summit of heads of state at
its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the end of January, but
has not announced a specific date.
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