The ICC has issued an international arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
SA’s desire to quit the International Criminal Court is understandable. The ICC’spreamble to the Rome Statute clearly states: “The most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole must not go unpunished.”The ICC was presented with 9 000 complaints about war crimes in 139 countries. It investigated and indicted 36 Africans in eight countries on the continent. It is this act of selective prosecution that will ultimately cause the collapse of the ICC.
It has chosen to conveniently ignore the massive war crimes of all the major powers, and their subservient allies. A classical example is the bloody conflict in Syria and Iraq, genocidal wars, planned and executed by all the five major powers of The UN security council. Violations of international human rights are often in the eyes of the beholder.
The US dropped more bombs against Vietnam than had been dropped by all sides in all previous wars in history. Today’s major and smaller powers are all involved in mass violence, torture; violations of fundamental human rights, the mistreatment of human beings, the use of outlawed cluster bombs, drone attacks that are against international law and the bombing of hospitals.
If the ICC is to survive in the turbulent years ahead it must fearlessly prosecute all those who are currently destroying humanity globally . It was judge Henry Jackson, the chief prosecuting officer at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, who said: “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastatingthat civilisation cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.
Selective morality and selective prosecution cannot be condoned while the world becomes a shooting gallery for the super powers and their political minions. Any nation that violates international law must be held accountable.
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