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Rwanda’s Kegame accusses ICC of bias

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Rwanda's Kegame accusses ICC of bias

The president of Rwanda Paul Kegame has accused the International Criminal Court (ICC) of bias saying The Hague-based court has failed to mete out justice in any other part of the world except in Africa.

“The ICC was supposed to address the whole world, but it ended up covering only Africa,” Kagame said on Saturday at a meeting with British-Sudanese telecoms tycoon and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali.

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“From the time of its inception, I said there was a fraud basis on which it was set up and how it was going to be used. I told people that this would be a court to try Africans, not people from across the world.

“And I don’t believe I have been proven wrong.”

Kegame’s accusation of what he calls open bias against Africa, is coming at a time several African countries, who are signatories to the Rome Statute that gave birth to the ICC, have said they would pull out of the court established by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court treaty in 1998.

 

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