These are the Ivorian Victims of Sarkozy’s Bombardment of Abidjan on April 11, 2011. These are the crimes that Ocampo and his Plantation Court would rather sweep under the rug, M. Frindéthié

On April 11, 2011, Sarkozy ordered French military helicopters to massacre protesters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

On the night of April 11, 2011, hundreds of Ivorian youths camped in front of the presidential palace in Abidjan to prevent France’s arrest of President Gbagbo. Sarkozy ordered the helicopters of the French army to shoot down at these unarmed civilians. Sarkozy’s massacre of hundreds of Ivorian youths did not cause the slightest shudder in the world of those who like to think of themselves as « the chosen people of God. » These massacred civilians were just collateral victims of Sarkozy’s quest for the Ivorian geological and agricultural resources (Cote d’Ivoire is the world’s major cocoa producer, the world’s 3rd coffee producer, a major producer of tropical timber, fruit cotton. the country is  rich with oil, natural gas, gold, diamond, manganese, bauxite, and many other resources). Two days after this slaughter, while the victims’ families were still mourning, French soldiers were busy loading French ships with Ivorian cocoa and coffee at the port of Abidjan. A few weeks later, Sarkozy’s puppet president, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, was being sworn in office in a display of insolent pageantry. Sarkozy’s carnage in Abidjan is just an epiphenomenon upon which the Plantation Court pompously named International Criminal Court can shed no tears. Sarkozy will never appear at any court for his crimes. He is a member of the « chosen people of God. »

ICC Chief Prosecutor Accused of Crimes Against Humanity

 

Fatou Bensouda, ICC chief prosecutor, was minister of justice of Gambian dictator Yaya Jammeh of Gambia. Talk about credibility!

By Omar Bah
Criminal lawyer Carlos Ramirez Lopez and Walter Marquez, retired deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela and president of El Amparo Foundation, have lodged a formal complaint against the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda.
The two submitted their complaints before the head of Independent Oversight Mechanism (IOM) of the ICC, Saklaine Hedaraly, seeking Bensouda’s suspension after they claim to have analyzed and consigned evidence that accuses the official as a serious human rights violator in The Gambia.
“In accordance with paragraph 1, article 46 of the Rome Statute, relating to the functioning of the ICC, in accordance with Rule 24 paragraph 1 section a.ii, of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, we file this complaint against the Chief Prosecutor, for gross negligence in the exercise of her duties, for concealing information or circumstances of a sufficiently serious nature to have precluded her from holding office, and for having committed serious violations of human rights and crimes against humanity before her official functions, which are of a grave nature that causes damage to the standing of the Court,” Marquez explained.
The complainants Ramírez and Márquez said that Bensouda participated in personal and direct actions that violate human rights as well as crimes against humanity committed against citizens of The Gambia, during the military dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh, between 1994 and 2002, to whom she served in various positions of the judicial repression apparatus of the regime as Prosecutor, Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
They indicated that on July 11, 2019, the JusticeInfo.Net media of the Hirondelle Foundation published a report under the signature of journalists Thierry Cruvelier and Mustapha K. Darboe, a citizen of Gambia, who included a chapter entitled “Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia?” , in which they certify that several citizens of that country, including Batch Samba Jallow and Sainey Faye declared before the Commission that Fatou Bensouda personally participated in the serious human rights violations committed by the military regime.
The report notes that Bensouda joined the cruel dictatorship of this country in 1994, where multiple and serious human rights violations were committed through systematic practices of acts of torture, fabrication of evidence, illegal detentions, enforced disappearances and deaths in custody, and adds that the current ICC prosecutor only stopped participating in those criminal acts when in 2002 she was hired to work in the International Criminal Court for Rwanda, and then in 2004 when she was appointed Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court .
Carlos Ramirez Lopez and Walter Marquez pointed out that the Rome Statute in its article 42.3 requires that the Prosecutor must have a “high moral consideration”, and the actions of Fatou Bensouda, are contrary to ethics and moral force that should guide this official position.
Read more on…https://standard.gm/lawyers-seek-icc-prosecutors-suspension/

The International Criminal Court is a Plantation Court (first published in November 2011), Martial Frindéthié

President Laurent Gbagbo

Today, a great Pan-Africanist, fighter for the freedom of Africa from the shackles of neocolonialism, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, has been transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague after an eight-month detention in a concentration camp in northern Cote d’Ivoire. No one, not even President Gbagbo’s white captors, are really convinced of the crimes they accused him of. The truth is that President Gbagbo is being punished for daring to look the white imperialist in the eyes and tell him that the white program of rape and plundering of the African continent will only take place over his dead body. So, the “superior” men came with their “superior” morals and, with the help of those African collaborators who cannot forgive God for having made them in the color of the devil, who cannot wait to have the gates of white bliss opened to them, shackled President Gbagbo and took him to this 21st-century Plantation Court they call International Criminal Court. For indeed, apart from victimizing the victims and rewarding the victimizers, what justice has this Plantation Court allegedly created to prosecute individuals for genocide and other crimes against humanity ever really rendered to Africans? Whatever happened to President Mitterrand of France, who organized, trained, armed, and transported the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide? Whatever happened to president Chirac of France, who orchestrated and supported the killing of tens of thousands of Lissouba’s supporters in Congo? Whatever will ever happen to presidents Chirac and then Sarkozy of France, whose military forces killed thousands of Ivorian civilians in 2004 and in 2011? I surmise that no Western leader, no matter the scale and violence of his crimes on Africans, will ever be tried in this Plantation Court system they call the International Criminal Court. President Gbagbo’s arrest, the most theatrical capture of an African freedom fighter since the capture and elimination of Patrice Lumumba, is meant to quash any African outrage about the plunder of the continent by the unscrupulous West, to serve as an example of white justice to any African nationalist opposed to the West’s predatory projects in Africa. If the so-called International Criminal Court is really looking for criminals and human rights abusers in Cote d’Ivoire, it is Alassane Dramane Ouattara, this puppet in office, whose protracted rebellion has killed more than 100,000 civilians in Cote d’Ivoire since 2002, that ought to be interpellated. For this Plantation Court called the International Criminal Court to deserve some semblance of credibility, it is Ouattara’s special police, with its daily lot of documented kidnappings, rapes, killings, and extra-judiciary assassinations, which ought to be brought to justice. This, however, will never happen, as long as Ouattara continues to enable the transfer of the Ivorian geological and agricultural resources to France. The illegal capture and incarceration of President Gbagbo in a white jail has historical precedence. Toussaint Louverture of Haiti died in a white jail. Samory Toure of West Africa died in a white jail. King Behanzin of Dahomey died in a white jail. Their crimes? They opposed the rape of Africa by the ravenous Occident. Their captures were also facilitated and applauded by some Africans. Each time an African freedom fighter is arrested by the white world and Africans applaud, each time the African continent is plundered of its natural and human resources and Africans applaud, Africans, indeed, give a standing ovation to the Gobineauian and Levy-Brhulian Aryanist theses of Black inferiority and cerebral ugliness.

War Criminals Among Us: Bush, Cheney, and the Eyes of the World

Last week, Richard Clarke, the man to whom nobody in the administration of C-Plus Augustus listened because what did he know, anyway?, had a chat with Amy Goodman in which he minced no words regarding his former employers.

« I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes. Whether that would be productive or not, I think, is a discussion we could all have. But we have established procedures now with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where people who take actions as serving presidents or prime ministers of countries have been indicted and have been tried. So the precedent is there to do that sort of thing. And I think we need to ask ourselves whether or not it would be useful to do that in the case of members of the Bush administration. It’s clear that things that the Bush administration did — in my mind, at least, it’s clear that some of the things they did were war crimes. »

And, something that most of us missed, there was a court on the other side of the world that agreed.

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were… found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia…At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.

At the very least, this court parceled out the blame for the torture program in a fair manner and all the way up the chain of command. The testimony of the victims was as horrible as you might expect:

The court heard how Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers; Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall; Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement, Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter. The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.

In related news, Ed Kilgore notes that Cheney continues to glory in his status as the most inexcusable American who ever lived. It’s like giving Pol Pot a late-night TV gig.

At times, Mr. Cheney seems to relish his villainous public persona. Outside the rodeo arena, he took a moment to show off the latest feature on his truck, a Darth Vader trailer-hitch cover, a nod to his alter-ego from the Bush days. « I’m rather proud of that, » he said, flashing his signature uneven grin.

To paraphrase Rick Blaine, I don’t object to a vampire, I object to a gutless one. I’ll buy the stake if someone else buys the garlic.

By Charles P. Pierce

Source: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35397/bush-cheney-war-crimes/

Interview with Alan White (ICC): For Fair and Balanced Justice, the ICC Must, and Is Set to, Prosecute the Leaders of the Forces Nouvelles

Soro Guillaume and Sidiki Konate, former leaders of the Forces Nouvelles

AUDIO

http://realaudio.rferl.org/voa/ENGL/2013/07/24/4f3c7f39-4aa3-41d1-9547-09d09351ae83.mp3

Peter Clottey

Last updated on: July 24, 2013 3:25 PM

The former chief of investigations for the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute leaders of the Forces Nouvelles over alleged atrocities the group committed during Ivory Coast’s civil war.

Alan White says there is need for the ICC to administer equal justice in Ivory Coast.

“All we are looking for is to ensure there is a balanced investigation and a balanced prosecution. Quite frankly that is one of the areas right now that the country of Ivory Coast is struggling from is the fact that there is not a sense of justice,” White said.

The ICC is gathering evidence to prosecute former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo for his role in the civil war after he refused to accept the October 2010 presidential vote. The election dispute led to the conflict.

Human rights groups accused supporters of both Gbagbo and current President Alassane Ouattara of human rights violations during the conflict.

White says for credibility and real reconciliation, the ICC will need to prosecute those on the pro-Ouattara side and since the court granted jurisdiction to the prosecutor to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity and war crimes dating back to September 19, 2002 to the present.

Gbagbo supporters have accused the ICC of favoritism, claiming that the former leader has been singled out for prosecution.

“If the court continues to pursue a balanced approach, I think the credibility will improve and certainly Ggagbo’s supporters, although they may not change their mind about the court, if they are fair about the court they will certainly reserve judgment if they see that there is a balance prosecution to eliminate this perception of persecution,” said White.

Guillame Soro, leader of the Forces Nouvelles, is currently Ivory Coast’s speaker of parliament. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations documented what they say are atrocities allegedly committed by the Forces Nouvelle.

Critics have said they wonder if the ICC has the political will to go after Mr. Soro due to his current position as the speaker of parliament. Others, however, say the ICC is experiencing a financial crunch, which has hampered its ability to investigate and prosecute alleged perpetrators in Ivory Coast.

“For international justice to succeed, it must be viewed as fair, free and balanced. If it is seemingly balanced on one side, it will certainly be cause for alarm for the people that would cooperate with the court,” said White.

Cote d’Ivoire: The International Criminal Court’s unenthusiastic Late Awakening, M. Frindéthié

ICC prosecutor Ocampo japing around with war-criminal-buddy Alassane Ouattara in 2011

Alassane Dramane Ouattara, Soro Kigbafori Guillaume, and Nicolas Sarkozy are war criminals. For 12 months now we have been publishing the evidence of their crimes in Cote d’Ivoire. The evidence of their crimes is overwhelming. Yet we doubt that they will ever be brought to justice. Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor, has been in bed with these killers for too long, and his credibility as an impartial justice broker has been too heavily compromised for him or any one of his colleagues to lead an objective investigation on the crimes of his buddies.

ICC prosecutor Ocampo joking around with war-criminal-buddy Soro Guillaume

This is why, when after a full year’s tergiversation and reckless dereliction of duty the ICC decides to finally investigate Ouattara’s and Soro’s crimes in Cote d’Ivoire (not even any mention of Sarkozy’s army helicopters that bombed unarmed youths camping on the ground of the Ivorian presidential Palace on April 11, 2011), we still doubt that anything close to justice can ever result from the ICC’s theatrics.

Ocampo/the ICC is not in Cote d’Ivoire on own volition. Ocampo/the ICC would have rather stopped his investigation in Cote d’Ivoire with his half-done inquest resulting in his inexplicable deportation of President Gbagbo to The Hague. Ocampo said it himself during his painful interview on Al Jazeera (see here http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2011/12/2011125201512161282.html) where he blatantly confessed that President Gbagbo was his only target; President Gbagbo was captured; and so there was no need for him to carry on his inquest.

On April 11, 2011, Sarkozy ordered French Army helicopters to drop bombs on unarmed Ivorian youths camping on the grounds of the Ivorian Presidential Palace to prevent the capture of President Gbagbo

The ICC is returning to Cote d’Ivoire today, this time to investigate the massacres ordered by Ouattara and Soro in Duekoue (West of Cote d’Ivoire). This comes a year after evidence, hitherto so overwhelmingly fresh and available, has decomposed and faded, and many witnesses have disappeared. Why now? Why so late? It is simply because the ICC has been dragged back to Cote d’Ivoire kicking and screaming by our and others’ relentless denunciations of Ocampo’s professional slackness.

Duekoue is not the only site of Ouattara and Soro’s war crimes, though perhaps the place where evidence could still be saved. For, what about Bouake and the 60 unsuspecting militaries and their innocent families brutally awakened in the middle of the night and slaughtered by Ouattara’s rebels in September 19, 2002, at the inception of Ouattara’s bloody insurgence? What about the women dancers of Adjanou raped and slaughtered by Ouattara’s rebel army? What about the hundreds of youths killed by suffocation in a 40-foot container in Bouake? What about the hundreds of pregnant women disemboweled by Ouattara’s rebels in Bouake? What about the scores of villages of President Gbagbo’s supporters burnt down and their populations massacred by Ouattara’s forces? What about …?

Women slaughtered by Alassane Ouattara’s rebel army

The International Criminal Court unenthusiastic investigation of the crimes of Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Soro Guillaume a year later, five years later, ten years later lacks conviction. We have not the slightest confidence in this modern Plantation Court that functions according to ideological currents.

These are the Ivorian Victims of Sarkozy’s Bombardment of Abidjan on April 11, 2011. These are the crimes that Ocampo and his Plantation Court would rather sweep under the rug, M. Frindéthié

On April 11, 2011, Sarkozy ordered French military helicopters to massacre protesters in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

On the night of April 11, 2011, hundreds of Ivorian youths camped in front of the presidential palace in Abidjan to prevent France’s arrest of President Gbagbo. Sarkozy ordered the helicopters of the French army to shoot down at these unarmed civilians. Sarkozy’s massacre of hundreds of Ivorian youths did not cause the slightest shudder in the world of those who like to think of themselves as « the chosen people of God. » These massacred civilians were just collateral victims of Sarkozy’s quest for the Ivorian geological and agricultural resources (Cote d’Ivoire is the world’s major cocoa producer, the world’s 3rd coffee producer, a major producer of tropical timber, fruit cotton. the country is  rich with oil, natural gas, gold, diamond, manganese, bauxite, and many other resources). Two days after this slaughter, while the victims’ families were still mourning, French soldiers were busy loading French ships with Ivorian cocoa and coffee at the port of Abidjan. A few weeks later, Sarkozy’s puppet president, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, was being sworn in office in a display of insolent pageantry. Sarkozy’s carnage in Abidjan is just an epiphenomenon upon which the Plantation Court pompously named International Criminal Court can shed no tears. Sarkozy will never appear at any court for his crimes. He is a member of the « chosen people of God. »