A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
For nine years Luis Moreno-Ocampo has dedicated the resources of the International Criminal Court to the exclusive task of prosecuting Africans. In the process, he has actively fomented imperial wars on the continent and encouraged the breakdown of fundamental principles of international law. He ends his term in office as he began it: as a lawyer for neocolonialism.
Good Riddance to the African-Hater on the International Criminal Court
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
āHe has committed the ICCās resources almost exclusively to concocting indictments against Africans.ā
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, leaves the ICC at the end of this month. The entire Black world ought to say āGood riddance.ā
Moreno-Ocampo is from Argentina, and took office as the Courtās first prosecutor in 2003. He has committed the ICCās resources almost exclusively to concocting indictments against Africans, while kissing Uncle Samās butt at every possible opportunity. Indeed, even as his term expires, Moreno-Ocampo continues to try to pin an ICC Marshalās badge on the United States, even though the U.S. isnāt a signatory to the treaty that created the Court. In his last days in office, he remains determined to use the superpower to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. This, of course, would require that the U.S. commit acts of war against Sudan, in clear opposition to the will of the African Union. But, that appears to be Moreno-Ocampoās purpose: to use the American superpower as a stick to threaten Africa.
The ICC prosecutor tried to enlist the U.S. as the Courtās enforcer back in June of 2010. Moreno-Ocampo had already indicted President al-Bashir none would honor
āThe ICC chief prosecutor joined in baseless claims that Libyan soldiers were imbibing vast quantities of Viagra in order to rape women.ā
Moreno-Ocampo made himself useful to Washington and its European allies in 2011, during the NATO war against Libya. He also got a chance to get back at Gaddafi for standing up to the ICC in 2009. In the absence of any credible evidence whatsoever, the ICC chief prosecutor joined in baseless claims that Libyan soldiers were imbibing vast quantities of Viagra in order to rape women, which would be a crime against humanity. As later became apparent, it was all a fiction, but truth means nothing in Moreno-Ocampoās political court.
He may be retiring as ICC prosecutor, but Moreno-Ocampo will always be a yapping puppy for imperial power. This week, he went before the United Nations Security Council urging countries that are not members of the ICC to go into Sudan to seize President al-Bashir
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com .
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