South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress, said that the International Criminal Court was not “useful” to prosecute crimes against humanity because membership is voluntary. Really? It is hilarious.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan flew out of South Africa on Monday morning aboard his presidential jet. Mr. Bashir’s plane left a military airport near Pretoria, the capital, unhindered by the authorities who had already been ordered over the weekend by South Africa’s High Court to prevent him from departing.
Legal experts counter that the South African government has violated the 1998 Rome Treaty it signed to join the court. In addition, they say that the government has violated its laws because South Africa has incorporated the treaty’s principles into its own Constitution.
“The African Union has always been a presidential brotherhood; the members always look out after each other,” said John Akokpari, an expert on the African Union at the University of Cape Town. “Their rhetoric about respecting human rights and the rule of law has always been rhetorical diarrhea.”
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