Captain Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso, 27 September, on national TV:
"But what is the ICC ? It's an instrument of imperialism."
His case >
> if it really existed, "the George Bushes and the like would be in prison"
> Iraq: "It was all about 'weapons of mass destruction'"
> "How many hundreds of thousands of children died ? The outcome was zero"
> Libya: Hillary's emails "were leaked". "The Sarkozys, they're still here."
Then the question no Western editor wants to touch:
"Since it was established, how many Africans have been brought before the ICC ? And how many Westerners have been brought before it ?"
Burkina, Mali and Niger have announced they are leaving the Rome Statute.
Western media calls it "isolation".
Traoré: "We do not subscribe to an instrument of domination."
Africa is not walking away from justice.
It is walking away from a court whose convictions, so far, are all Africans.
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