Joseph Kony, African leaders and the International Criminal Court – Oguejiofo Annu

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Look who is laughing now:

African leaders initially welcomed the ICC after it indicted Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army responsible for recruiting child soldiers and other crimes in Uganda.

But the mood changed as the court came to be seen increasingly as exercising a double standard in indicting (those same) African leaders (who targeted Kony), including in Sudan and Kenya, while avoiding investigation of actions of western leaders in Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/nelson-mandela-how-africa-changed

Meanwhile, the American, Ugandan, Congolese special forces have been unable to locate a trace of Joseph Kony in the jungles of Central Africa.

Some say he is protected by the people and the land, because he is leading the indigenous people to wage a battle against multi-national oil and mineral companies who want to ravage their land and water. Those companies have hired the the Ugandan army to secure the land for them.

Time will tell….


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