Kenya in Bid to Overturn Bashir Arrest Warrant
The appeal was filed by the Attorney General after an arrest warrant was issued for Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir to be handed over to the International Criminal Court should he ever set foot in Kenya again.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir (R) arrives for the promulgation of Kenya's New Constitution at the Uhuru Park grounds on August 27, 2010 in Nairobi.
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THESE PEOPLE ARE WORKING CONTRARY TO DEVELOPMENT OF PECAE IN THE ENTIRE REGION. THEY ARE WORKING FOR THE WEST AND THEIR HEGEMONIC RULE IT SO APPEARS. AFRICA SHOULD HAVE THE OPTION OF DETERMINING WHO SHOULD BE A WAR CRIMINAL AND HOW THAT PROCESS SHOULD BEGIN ; WHAT EVER HAPENEED TO NETANYAHU IS HE NOT THE BIGGETS KILLER IN THE REGION ? OR THE PALESTINAANS DONT COUNT AS PEOPLE ? ARE YOU MIGHT BE UNDER THE SAME ILLUSION THAT THEY ARE NOT PART OF AFRICA. THE AFRICAN UNION NEEDS TO GROW AND ENVLOPE ITS LEADERS TO ADHERE TO THE AU DOCTRINES NOT THE ICC . WE ARE MOVING ON A FAST PACE OF CATCH UP AND WE DONT HAVE TIME TO PLAY THESE SMALL GAMES OF WHO CAN QUOTE BETER LAW THAN WHO !!! PEOPLES LIVES ARE AT RISK THE ECONOMICAL SECURITY OF THE REGION DEPENDS ON GOOD VIBES BETWEEN BROTHERS. WHAT I CAN ONLY SAY TO THE KENYAN GOVERNMNMET IS THAT AU POLICY MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO ADHERE TO THAT RULING AS THE KENYANS ARE ALSO GOVERNED BY AU MANDATES WHICH STRICTLY FORBIDS ANY MEMEBER STATE TO HAND OVER ANY LEADER OR GOVERNING BODY WITRHIN THE AU CONSTITUINCY SO THE JUDGES DECREE IS NEGATED BY FACT OF AU CONSTITUTION. THE AU CONSTITUTION IS PREABMLED OVER ALL GOVERNING MEMBERS JUDICIARY LEGISLATIONS . SO IT IS WITHIN THE RIGHT OF AU TO BE RECOGNISED AS SUPREME HEADS OF ALL STATES IN PRINCIPLES OF LAWS. SO WHETER THE KENYAN JUDGES WNAT TO OR NOT THE AU CONSTITUTION OVERTURNS ANY JUDGEMENT THAT DERIDE OUTSIDE THE STATUTES OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE AU. THIS WARRANT IS NULL ANVOID AND HAS NO LEGITIMACY ON THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA. IT WAS ALL A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE THAT THE GOVERNMNET SOUGHT NOT TO EMBARASS THEMSELVES BY HAB VING CONTRARY DICTATES TO THEIR COURTS. THE COURTS HAVE DONME THE GOVERNMENT A DISERVICE BY BLOCKING ANY STRONG REPRESENTATIONS IN NEGOTIATIONS TO IMPROVING THE STATIC CONFLICT THAT WONT REOLVE ITSELF WITHOUT STRONG AND DEFINED LEADERSHIP. IT IS TIEM TO TAKE POWER INTO OUR HAND S IN ALL AFRICA WE NEED NO REFEREES FROM ABROAD WHO ASLO HAS DISPENSE JSUTICE WHAT TYPE OF FOOLISHNESS IS THAT. . THIS IS THE AFRICAN TIME THIS IS THE RESSURECTION OF ALL AFRICA . AFRICA IS 1 BILLION STRONG 1 GREAT BIG BILLION STRONG WHY WEAKEN THE DOSAGE WHEN THE RECIPE IS STRENGTH AND UNITY. WE WANT TO SEE PROGRESS IN THE BLUE NILE THESE THINGS DONT HAVE TO BE SPELLED OUT THESE THINGS SHOULD BE KNOWN AFRICANS CAN BE JSUT AS DIPLOMATIC AS ANY ONE ELSE. IF THE WEST HAD LISTENED TO THE AU AND NOT SOUGHT TO EMBARRAS THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD THEIR OWN AGENDA IN LIBYAS WE AR3E ALSO SEEINGT IN SYRIA WE HEAR THE SAME THINGS WE ARE NOT TALKING WE WONT TALK WE DONT WANT PEACVE REGIME CHANGE AND SO ON. LTE ME TELL YU THIS THAT WAS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER AS WE SEE LIBYA CANT CALM WHO IS IN CHARGE OF LIBAY THE GUN IS THIS IS WHAT THE WEST WANTED THIS SI WAHT THEY GOT. YHERY CAN ROB THE OIL LONG SIDE THE QUATARIS WHILE THEY GIVE THEM LOADS OF AMMUNITION IN LIBYA TO KILL EACH TOHER. SYRIA IS ADIFFERNT RECIPE THIS WILL SPILL INTO TOO MCU TURMOIL. BE WIZE THE INTELLECT IS THERE FORT A REASON. WE CAN SEE THESE THINGS WE ARTE ALIVE WE SEE. WE HAVE TO BE SMARTER THAN THE REST OR WE WILL BE CONSUM,ED IN THE PREPLANNED DESTRUCTION THAT BUIS BEING PAVED BY FORCES THAT BE.INTELLIGENCE IS BESTOWED UPON US ALL NO RACE HAS NY SUPERIORITY OVER ANOTHER WE ALL HAVE VISION WE CAN ALL BE SMART AND WE CAN ALL READ AND WRITE SO WHENWE ARE PATIENT AND WE LOOS FO ANSWERES THEY BECOME CLEAR AS CYSTAL OR EVEN MORE SO.THE STANDARD FOR AFRICA IS UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE TUMBLEOVER AND THE CENTURY WOULD HAVE CAUGHT US NAPPING. DO NOT BE A STUMBLING BLOCK TO AFRICA BECOMING THE AWAKENED. THE AU IS CONSCIOUS THAT IT HAS TO HAVE CREDIBILITY BUT THAT CANT COME FROM NGOS OR ANY WASHINGTON OR PARIS OR EVEN LONDON BASED INSTITUTTES THESE ARE NARURAL PROGRESSIONS THAT OCCUR IN HISTORY EVOLVEMENT OF POLITICS AND PEOPLE HAPPEN NATURALLY NJO ONE HAS DOMINION OVER TIMEAND THIS IS NOT THE TIEM TO START PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE FUTURE OF AFRICA IN THE BALANCE.THERE HAS BEEN TO MANY HANDS IN THE POT TRYING TO DICTATE TO AFRICA WHAT THEY SHOULD SO AND HOW THEY SHOULD LIVE THAT HAS NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL UP TILL NOW THE ONLY THING THAT HAS WORKED HAS BEEN THE CORRUTPION THAT THE WEST HAS POISONED THE CONTINENT WITH AND THEY DID THIS WITH THE FEAR OF DEATH BY MURDERING PROGRESSIVE LEADERS AND ALSOBY INSTALLING DINGBATS INTO GOVERNMMNET WHOM THEY WERE ABLE TO USE MOBUTO BENALI MUBARAK THE LIST IS ENDLES TODAY AFRICANS ARE NOT PREPARED TO BE DICTATED TO BY WAY OF FRAUDULENTS ELECTIONS OR BRIBERY OR THREAT WE JUST WONT HAVE IT BUT THESE THINGS MUST ONLY HAPPEN ON OUR SPEED NOT AT THE DICTAE OF EUROPE OR WASHINGTON THESE TEND TO BE ALL FAILURES THEIR INTERFERNCE ONLY LEADS TO MORE CONFLICT AND INCREASED HOSTILITIES THIS IS WHY IT IS VERY IMPERTANT THAT AFRICANS ALONE SOLVE AFRICAN PROBLEMS THEY ARE MORE THAN CAPABLE . WE MUST NOT ALLUDE OURSELVES TO PROPOGANDA AND LIES ABOUT HOW ADVANCED OR BACKWARDS THE AFRICANS ARE. THE CONTINENET HAS BEEN UNDR SEIGE FOR CENTURIES WE ARE BREAKING THE BACKS OF THIS SEIGE SO DO NOT MESS ABOUT
The whole idea about the ICC issuing arrest warrants and forcing African states to enforce the warrants is STUPID AND COLONIALISM. African countries should never have signed on with the ICC. International law requires that people be judged by their own fellow citizens. Kenya was stupid when they signed on with the ICC. It is a stupid imperial european court.
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