What really shook me and forced me to write this post was the question the lawyer posed to the host. It went something like "... I would add Iraq to the list too, why is it then that African Presidents are tried under International law where as there is no

chance of a Bush or a Blair standing in front of the ICC."
I, myself was against Charles Taylor and the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir for the war crimes they had committed. But the question of the defence lawyer got me to think a bit negatively about the ICC, who claim to be the International criminal court, but their jurisdiction, it seems, is only among the African nations.
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