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Asrar Hussain's avatar

I was reading a chapter from Mehdi Hassan book and found it interesting how he hit the first ICC prosecutor with receipts. He had no reply bro the fact Africans are disproportionately targeted under his watch

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Sarel Van Der Walt's avatar

Yes, Africans were disproportionately prosecuted, but it were mostly due to there fact that the legal system in their home (African) countries were not strong enough to do the prosecutions themselves. The US & Australia have prosecuted a few soldiers for war crimes done in Afghanistan &/ Iraq.

Israel can avoid the prospect of ICC prosecutions by conducting the prosecutions themselves, not only of all the Israeli supporters of the genocide, but also of Hamas. But instead of going into Gaza to arrest the Hamas perpetrators, Israel send in the IDF to identify & “extra-judicial” kill any potential suspects of Oct 7 massacre.

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ron's avatar

So you prefer the murderer to investigate his own crime? Really? How many IDF butchers have been convicted by an Istaeli court ?

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Asrar Hussain's avatar

What does a strong legal system look like? I mean is there some set criteria to say this is strong icc won't go there, this is week icc will go after them.

Chuckles at USA having a strong legal system to deal with this, remind me how many soldiers have been prosecuted for Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Sarel Van Der Walt's avatar

Yes, Africans were disproportionately prosecuted, but it were mostly due to there fact that the legal system in their home (African) countries were not strong enough to do the prosecutions themselves. The US & Australia have prosecuted a few soldiers for war crimes done in Afghanistan &/ Iraq.

Israel can avoid the prospect of ICC prosecutions by conducting the prosecutions themselves, not only of all the Israeli supporters of the genocide, but also of Hamas. But instead of going into Gaza to arrest the Hamas perpetrators, Israel send in the IDF to identify & “extra-judicial” kill any potential suspects of Oct 7 massacre.

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Nez H's avatar

I still haven't gotten my book 😞

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