African Union (AU) and SADC chair President Robert Mugabe has announced saying Africa must create its own International Criminal Court (ICC) which should prosecute Western leaders the likes of former UK and US supremos Tony Blair and George Bush.
Wester leaders who have committed crimes on the continent must be tried here, Mugabe said.
Mugabe quoted in the State Media said it was high time Africa set up a criminal court which would seek justice for “serious” war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the West, particularity during the colonial era.
“They committed crimes, colonial crimes galore – the slaughter of our people and all that imprisonment… I have a case, why was I imprisoned for 11 years? We forgave them, but perhaps we’ve not done ourselves justice… You set up the ICC, we set our ICC to try Europeans, to try Mr [George] Bush and Mr [Tony] Blair,” Mugabe said.
Mugabe added saying the International Criminal Court was a court for Western countries, dispensing Western injustice on Africans.
Mugabe said this while addressing journalists at the Harare international airport where he was seeing off his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keita after his three-day state visit to the southern African country.
Keita concurred, adding it was “up to Africans, not Europeans or Americans to judge their leaders”.
Mugabe’s remarks came a few days after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir evaded an ICC arrest order by leaving early from an African Union summit that was held in Johannesburg.
At the summit, Mugabe wanted a mass withdrawal of African states from the ICC.
The veteran leader harshly criticised the ICC after Al-Bashir dodged his arrest, saying the international court was not wanted in Africa.
“This is not the headquarters of the ICC, we do not want it in this region at all,” Mugabe said.
Mugabe also took a swipe at the “foreign” funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs), whom he said were angling for Al-Bashir’s arrest.
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I can foresee a situation where Mugabe’s salary and allowances are stopped; he has set precedence by stopping former VP Mujuru’s allowance. Still I think a competent incoming government may want to do this; after decades of corruption and waste surely the nation has cause to recover as much of the looted wealth as it can and not make things worse by giving these thieves even more wealth!
People like Tsvangirai should not be allowed to keep the $4 million Highlands mansion, the bribe for his do no nothing on the reforms. If Tsvangirai loses the mansion President Mugabe must lose the Blue Roof mansion!
In the case of President Mugabe it should be easy to establish once and once for all that he rigged the 2013 elections, for example. Rigging elections is a very serious crime, it is treason, and there are serious consequences that must follow for those guilty of treason!