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Gambia News : Africa will not be colonised again: Gambian president on ICC
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Monday called the practices of the
International Criminal Court unacceptable and warned that Africa would
not be colonised again.
Jammeh told state owned GRTS television
shortly after returning home from an African Union summit in Libya,
"What is also not acceptable is the fact that any Western country can
have a court that can indict an African head of state".
"It is unacceptable and we are telling them enough is enough," he said.
"My
position is that Africa will not be colonised again in any way. Our
agreement is that Africa is a continent, we should be able to punish
and try our people since we have been dealing with our own problems."
Reacting
to the African Union stance on the war crimes warrant against Sudanese
President Omar al-Beshir, Jammeh, a retired army officer and former
wrestler, told state television African leaders at the summit had come
to the conclusion that "enough is enough".
"There are worse
criminals in the world who have invaded countries and killed millions
of people for the past two to three hundred years and nothing came of
it."
"They came to Africa and killed thousands of people who
resisted slavery, and hundreds of thousands who wanted to be free, and
nobody says sorry. As we speak today, they have invaded other countries
that are innocent, killed their president and looted the country,
killed millions and displaced over 10 million people all in the name of
democracy and fighting dictatorship", he said.
He added, "I am not saying that there should be impunity for anyone but let there be equal dispensation of justice".
Jammeh said the International Criminal Court came into being with the cooperation of many African countries including Gambia
But
he added, "all these indictments that we are hearing [about] are only
African heads of state. Not a single Western sitting head of state has
been indicted."
Beshir, for whom the International Criminal Court
(ICC) earlier this year issued an arrest warrant on charges of war
crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, has dismissed such
allegations as "propaganda". The ICC is the world's only
independent, permanent court with the jurisdiction to try genocide,
crimes against humanity and war crimes
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- criminal Jammeh, America and the west will face the full force of justice one dayand For the reparation that am very sure of. But for you facing justice that day is close and visible. You are killing Gambianexposing our military to killing exhibetion
(Posted on July 28, 2009, 7:51 PM MI BANORAMAS)
- Get real. Anyone who believes Jammeh's the Great Black Hope of Africa he makes out he is lives in a dreamworld. Even Jammeh doesn't believe in the lies he feeds you. This man is guilty of human rights breaches.Western governments would be more honest
(Posted on July 12, 2009, 6:45 PM David Riddington)
- I quite concord with Jammeh that "justice should be equalized" I guess some of us out there are just insinuating things, besides, sometimes we have to look into the good sayings of our president even though some of us hate him. Stop being critics..?
(Posted on July 12, 2009, 4:00 PM Jerrish)
- President Jammeh u should learn from obama he visit to africa Ghana show us that african will never develop in current corrupt leader who are there make them self rich with poor people money,we cant even remove the president in a peaceful way.we cannot remove them by ballot only bullet,if we the african especially Gambian dont stand up and stop dictatoship our children will suffer more than us,
(Posted on July 12, 2009, 1:19 AM freedom of expression)
- You keep talking about slavery and what they did to us and still now no one has apologise. What about you apologising to all those people that you have tortured and killed. You need to think about judgement day. I wonder if u have blood in ur veins
(Posted on July 11, 2009, 3:16 PM asta jeng)
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