Doubts About ICC

ALLOW me to air my views concerning the ICC and its activities in Africa and other so-called ‘third world’ countries.

I am in a very serious doubt about the fairness of this so-called International Criminal Court and I see to it as another Western conspiracy against the leaders of not so powerful countries of the world.
Every person with a clear conscience can agree that only leaders from the so-called third nations have been charged in this court which is really a bad thing.
While this court is busy persecuting the likes of the Taylors and is in hot pursuit of the president of Sudan Al Bashir, atrocities are being committed in Palestine by Israel and in Iraq and Afghanistan after Bush and his allies invaded these two countries. Yet the ICC see it fit to rather indict President Al Bashir!
How many atrocities should be committed in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan for the leaders who are violating world peace to get indictments? Or are they living on a different planet?
It is a pity that most countries in the so-called third world were hoodwinked to be signatories and to recognize the ICC while even the powerful nations on this earth are not signatories.
Law is law, and it must be respected by everybody regardless of his or her country’s military might.
Finally let me sign off by quoting this words of the great son of Africa Kwame Nkrumah: ‘Those who argue that the time is not ripe or that the difficulties are too great for the establishment of a continental union government are not recognizing the imperative needs of the African continent… A united Africa is destined to be a great force in world affairs. So the battle is joined… we cannot disengage until the wishes and aspirations of our people have been met’. In quoting this I mean it is only once Africa unites that this kind of bullying and neo-colonialism will end. Otherwise we will be always at the receiving end of Western conspiracies.
Sem Paul Kateta
Oshikoto region