One of the parables my village elders commonly use in their allegories to impact wisdom and morals to youths is: "Flies always go to where the stench of the rotten meat is." The relevance of this parable as regards the actions of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to Africa is as succinct as it is irrefutable.
The hullabaloo from a section of African pundits and politicians about the ICC being "an unfair institution" and "only targeting Africans" is so deafening that one would think the argument is full of merit. To the contrary, African governments need to take full responsibility for the evolution of ICC because of their well-known impunity to shield suspected mass murderers in the name of Pan-Africanism. This makes the ICC the court of last resort for the voiceless.
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