Uganda’s Museveni vows to pull out of “partisan” ICC
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February 14, 2016 (KAMPALA) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who
faces seven challenger’s in the country’s general elections on
Thursday, has vowed to pull of the Hague-based International Criminal
Court (ICC).
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Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni (Photo: Carl Court/AP)
Museveni described the ICC as a “partisan” court, which targets Africans.
“The ICC is not serious, it is partisan, it is not balanced, it is not
very serious,” the Ugandan president said during Saturday’s
presidential debate.
Early this month, however, members of the African Union backed a
Kenyan proposal to push for withdrawal from the ICC over claims it
targets Africa.
Established in 2002 to try war criminals and perpetrators of genocide
never tried at home, the ICC has opened inquiries involving nine
nations, including Kenya, Ivory Coast, Libya, Sudan, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda, Mali and, most
recently, Georgia.
At the summit, however, no legally binding decision was made, and the
decision to leave the world court can be decided by individual
nations.
Currently, about a third of the ICC member states are in the African continent.
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