Once again, the International community is doing what it knows best, indicting African leaders and sending them to the ICC.We as Africans will want to know what Gaddafi did that has necessitated this current move by the ICC. Is it true that most of the European countries are not signatories to the ICC Convention? Why is it that most of their leaders are not taken to the ICC when they leave office since they are the ones who sanction most of the wars on the African continent in which innocent women and children are killed unjustly. Why is it that Tony Blair and George Bush be hauled before the ICC to answer charges of committing crimes against humanity. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were created by these western countries in the name of fighting terrorism, but what did we see in the end, innocent civilians always dying and all they could do was just apologize and the families of the victims would just forget about the death of their loved ones. Why cant these leaders also be held accountable for these deaths. Do you remember the over two hundred civilians who were killed by NATO bombs during the war in Yugoslavia. The reason given by NATO was that they mistook the train full of civilians to be carrying soldiers, what a shame. Nobody called for the leaders of NATO to be indicted for any war crime. Time will tell if the Libyan leader will submit himself to such an indictment. It was done to Charles Taylor of Liberia who was betrayed by his own African brothers. Will Gaddafi also face an act of betrayal? It seems the ICC was set up just to try African leaders. When Gaddafi is eventually sent to the ICC, that is if only they will be able to lay their hands on him, because he will not be easily arrested. This is an unfair world. The Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir is also facing a similar indictment, so when will a western country's president would be made to face the ICC?
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