SV: {UAH} US Diplomats Walk out of Uganda President's Inauguration - ABC News

they always wal out to wal right in.

Noc'la

 

"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.

Den lördag, 14 maj 2016 17:36 skrev Abbey Semuwemba <abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com>:

Ahmed,
We are not a nice nation. Museveni wails often of the ineffectiveness of the ICC but is there any Ugandan who trusts any of our courts even on an issue as small as domestic violence? How dumb is our populace!!.

Abbey

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Ahmed Kateregga <ahmedkatereggamusaazi@gmail.com> wrote:

The Republic of Uganda and other AU member states who are not neo
colonies like Botswana, should withdraw from ICC and form their own
court.

On 5/13/16, john kwitonda <kwitonda4@gmail.com> wrote:
> but americans should know, the ugandan dictator doesnt care about genocide
> victims. he has himself committed genocide and he is scared about ICC. LOOK
> ,THE PEOPLE IN WAGONS  IN EAST WERE BURNT ALIVE, JUSTICE HAS NEVER BEEN
> GIVEN TO VICTIMS. WHAT MATTERS TO HIM, IS WHAT HE ACHIEVES  OUT OF BASHIR S
> ATTENDENCE. THEY ARE BIRDS OF A FEATHER. tHE aMERICAN SHOULD realise that
> uganda is going exactly where zimbabwe is, the man now loos to take the
> country with him as long as he is the president,. this democracy he talsk
> about all is nothing but  decoy, he knows he cant allow democracy, bse it
> means him going out of power.
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Gook <grakanga@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-diplomats-walk-uganda-presidents-inauguration-39074746
>>
>> US Diplomats Walk out of Uganda President's Inauguration
>>
>> The U.S. delegation to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's inauguration
>> walked out of Thursday's ceremony in protest against his disparaging
>> comments about an international war crimes tribunal and the presence of
>> Sudan's leader, whom the court has indicted, the State Department
>> <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/state-department.htm> said.

>>
>> Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said U.S. Ambassador to Uganda
>> Deborah Malac and a visiting Washington-based official, along with
>> several
>> European and Canadian diplomats, abruptly left the inauguration after
>> Museveni made negative remarks about the International Criminal Court in
>> his inaugural address. She added that the U.S. also objected to Sudanese
>> President Omar al-Bashir's participation in the inauguration. Al-Bashir
>> has
>> been charged by the court for atrocities in Sudan's western Darfur
>> region.
>>
>> Trudeau did not identify the European or Canadian diplomats involved. She
>> said Museveni's comments were "insulting" to both the court and to
>> victims
>> of war crimes and genocide.
>>
>> "We believe that walking out in protest is an appropriate reaction to a
>> head of state mocking efforts to ensure accountability for victims of
>> genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly when his
>> country has committed to accountability as a state party to the Rome
>> Statute" that established the court, she said.
>>
>> In his address, Museveni called the court "a bunch of useless people" and
>> said he no longer supports it. Uganda is a member of The Hague-based
>> International Criminal Court and as such is obligated to detain and turn
>> over suspects wanted by the tribunal. The United States is not a member
>> of
>> the court, but supports it and has called on other countries to live up
>> to
>> their commitments under the treaty that created it.
>>
>> The walkout was preceded by expressions of concern about al-Bashir's
>> presence from the U.S. delegation to Uganda's prime minister and foreign
>> minister, Trudeau said. She added that the delegation decided to attend
>> the
>> inauguration despite al-Bashir's attendance out of respect for
>> U.S.-Ugandan
>> bilateral relations, but made the decision to leave after Museveni's
>> remarks.
>>
>> Al-Bashir faces two ICC indictments for atrocities linked to the conflict
>> in Darfur, where an estimated 300,000 people have died and 2 million have
>> been displaced since 2003, according to U.N. figures. He rejects the
>> ICC's
>> authority and had been able to travel relatively freely in Africa and the
>> Middle

>> East <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/middle-east.htm> — even to
>> countries like Uganda and South Africa
>> <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/south-africa.htm> that are parties to

>> the Rome Statute and are required to carry out ICC arrest warrants.
>> Al-Bashir also recently attended the inauguration of Djibouti's
>> president,
>> an event attended by U.S. officials.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from Gook's iPatch!
>>
>>
>> "What you are we once were, what we are   you shall be!"
>> An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.
>>
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