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October 25, 2016

Another Powerful African Country Just Pulled Out Of The ICC

After South Africa made its brazen announcement to pull out from the ICC, two other African countries have now followed suit. Very naughty.
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - JULY 23: View of the International Criminal Court as Dutch prosecuters consider a war crimes investigation of the Malaysia Airlines crash July 23, 2014 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

Man, oh man, this is a slippery slope we have found ourselves sliding down.

After South Africa’s Justice Minister Michael Masutha announced that we were to leave the International Criminal Court on Friday, Burundi followed suit on Saturday.

And now, Kenya has done the same. More from iol:

The Kenyan cabinet is finalising a decision to leave the ICC after the country was criticised for prosecuting President Uhuru Kenyatta, his deputy William Ruto and four other leaders for the 2007 post-election violence. The case crumbled before the ICC last year and the Kenyan leaders were acquitted.

Last year there was a dispute about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visiting South Africa despite his being the subject of an ICC arrest warrant over alleged war crimes.

The process takes one year to come into effect and the ICC has already asked both South Africa and Burundi to reconsider.

Let’s just hope the DA has some sway over this in the ConCourt over all this nonsense.

[source:iol]