{UAH} HAVE WE QUIT THE ICC YET?
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Uganda has called on African countries to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing it of unfairness.
"I will bring a motion to the African Union's next session. I want all of us to get out of that court of the West. Let them (Westerners) stay with their court," Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Friday.
"I supported the court at first because I like discipline. I don't want people to err without accountability," he said, adding, "But they have turned it into a vessel for oppressing Africa again so I'm done with that court. I won't work with them again."
Earlier in the month, the ICC dropped charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta due to insufficient evidence to try him.
The Kenyan president had been indicted for charges including murder, rape, and masterminding post-election violence which caused the death of 1,200 people and displacement of 600,000 in the east African country in 2007-08.
The collapse of the case was a blow to the court, which has secured only two convictions, both against little-known Congolese warlords, and has yet to prove it can hold the powerful to account.
The trial of Kenyatta's deputy, William Ruto, is, however, underway at the Hague-based court.
The Ugandan president said, "With connivance, they are putting Deputy President Ruto, someone who has been elected by Kenyans, in front of the court there in Europe."
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