I learned with dismay that the deposed President of Ivory Coast, Gbagbo was transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Tuesday, November 29 after a quick charge, in total violation of the international code of procedures and contempt total requirements for peace in Ivory Coast.
This transfer follows a procedure so fast, it can be legitimately described as a kidnapping.
My suspicions are further increased when the prosecutor claimed to have targeted six officials in the Ivory Coast, but insisted unduly on Gbagbo, who is least likely to escape because already in custody.
This willingness to charge and to transfer Gbagbo [who did not run escape during the bombing of the palace] as a common criminal, defying the logic of a quest for true reconciliation and lasting peace in Côte d'Ivoire.
After fifty years of independence, Africa should have all the know-how to bring justice to its own citizens and eliminate the Justice imported.
What kind of action is rather hasty to bring to justice the victim of an attack, and to bear with the author of the attack?
No one seeks to escape justice. But when justice is bathed in a sea of humiliation and abuse, so as to be governed by self-hatred with self-righteous logic untenable befits the human conscience to stand up against this justice for the good of all.
We will not remain silent about this because we must not remain silent about it because, all active members of this human drama.
John Rawlings
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