ICC – Europe’s Guantanamo?

This press release is not about the weapons of Mass Deception (Destruction). It is about another instrument of an international order which is in a financial as well as a political crisis.

The fact that the ICC pre-trial chamber has dismissed a charge of genocide against President Bashir is another proof of the Prosecutor’s already shaky credibility. The chorus shouting genocide which he headed began during the US presidential campaign in 04 and has since been steadily and systematically escalating.

The ICC is now well on the way to become Europe’s Guantanamo. Its call for help from third parties to arrest suspects is similar to the infamous rendition policy.

The ICC, which considers only situations in Africa and closes its eyes to atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza has no credibility at all. The Sudan (like the USA, China and Russia and tens of other countries, including India and Indonesia, which combined together make more than half of the world’s population) is not a member of that “club”, has not ratified the Rome Statute and does not accept the legal basis of the Security Council referring Darfur investigation to the ICC.

Notwithstanding the way we choose to see it. There are several mysterious questions:-