The International Criminal Court (ICC) employs a ‘double-standard’ by ‘exclusively’ targeting African leaders, a top African Union official said yesterday, according to a Mail & Guardian Online report.
‘We’ve been complaining … about the double standard,’ AU commission president Jean Ping said, referring to the court in The Hague, which prosecutes individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. When it comes to prosecuting suspects for war crimes, human rights violations and other atrocities at the ICC, the ‘people who are targeted there, all of them, are exclusively Africans,’ he said. The AU official complained that there are currently about 30 Africans facing trial in the international justice system. ‘Why these double standards? We are questioning ourselves on that,’ Ping said.
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