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So far, most, if not all of those wanted, indicted and punished by the International Criminal Court have been from Africa. It makes one wonder: is this international court for Africans only? Is the '' and its '' only meant for, and supposed to be enforced on, Africans? Even in Africa, the court seems to be selective: any leader who strongly opposes or chastises Western countries, the US in particular, will most likely end up on the ICC list. Mr. Robert Mugabe, maybe due to his age or his being very knowledgeable about the West, has been lucky; so far. African leaders who have beenprofitable to the West, however brutal and cruel they are, have been spared by the ICC. Case in point is the Equatorial Guinea's leader: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who is the longest serving African leader (he has been in power for 34 years now); he is one of the most cruel and one of the most wealthy heads of state in the world. But like Mobutu of the then Zaire, Obiang is useful to the West. The ICC is not for him.The ICC, too, is not for the Sri Lankan leaders who are known to have committed horrific human rights violations, atrocities and war crimes during the last Sri Lankan war; and it is not for Myanmar leaders, who have not only been brutal to their own people but even more so, to Muslims living there who are systematically and in the most cruel of ways, being 'cleansed' from around the country. And no other country has acted with so much arrogance and impunity as Israel; it continues to blockade and strangle Gaza, and it continues to brutally oppress and suppress Palestinians with no action, at all, from the so called international court. If the ICC was/is just and equitable,Still from this very absorbing article from Veterans Today:As long as the ICC continues to act and mete out its form of 'judgment' and 'justice' so blatantly: arbitrarily, deceitfully and inequitably; while others, due to their coming from certain countries or their holding certain positions or their serving certain interests/powers act with impunity and are exempted whatever crimes they commit or have committed - the court is no more but a circus. As for Africa, as long as it focuses on leaders from the continent (selectively), the court is no more but a dictatorial and an imperialistic tool to Western powers.