African leaders rejects the international court
Posted by africanpress on July 4, 2009
The Meeting of African Heads of State and Government in Libya ended on Friday after bitter wrangles.
According to the Associated Press, the wrangling led the leaders to agree ” to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.”
AU has reached and agreement. AU member state leaders will not cooperate with the ICC and that will mean all AU member states will not arrest The Sudanese President and hand him over to The Hague for trial.
Now that the AU has come out strongly to castigate ICC, Sudan has welcomed the move as other African leaders say the AU wanted to teach the West a lesson by telling them on their face that they have to stop imposing things on Africa.
According to the Associated Press “The 13th AU summit of heads of state, which concluded Friday in Sirte, Libya, also “expresses its preoccupation about the behavior of the ICC prosecutor” Luis Moreno Ocampo, whom African officials describe as too hard on al-Bashir.”
It now remains to be seen if Mr Bashir (the Sudanese President) will dare travel to AU member states without fear of arrest.
Written by Chief Editor Korir /API
