UN Envoy Says Somali War Crime Suspects Should Face ICC!

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UN Envoy Says Somali War Crime Suspects Should Face ICC - AFP

NAIROBI (AFP)--A U.N. envoy Tuesday said Somali war crimes suspects should be prosecuted at the international Criminal Court in order to end impunity in the lawless African nation.

"People perpetuating crimes and violence are not being challenged before the International Criminal Court," said Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. secretary general's special envoy to Somalia.

"I think the time has come to see what international justice can do to help Somalis," he told a press conference in Nairobi, where he became the first top U.N. envoy to make such a call for trials before the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal.

Ould-Abdallah said investigations in Somalia should really go back to 1991 when dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted, touching off power struggles that have defied numerous attempts to restore stability, but the ICC can only take up cases since it started work in July 2002.

"I believe in justice (in order to avoid) to avoid impunity," said the envoy, three days after holding talks with President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. "Why can't Somalis make an internal effort to be like Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone (countries that have emerged from conflict)?

"Where are the patriotic Somalis to ask why can't we have peace like Angola, Mozambique" said Ould-Abdallah.

In April, a European Union envoy asked Brussels to investigate whether Ethiopian and Somali forces committed war crimes in their recent crackdown on Islamist and clan insurgents in Mogadishu.

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First people that will be tried: Hawiye warlords. 8)

[Shirib]

I think Mohamed Dhere should go first.

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There gonna say he is clinically insane and cannot stand trial after a short psychological evaluation.

[Somaliweyn]

I believe that the Somali traitors, warlords and criminals should be prosecuted by the Somali people themselves.

Since the Somali people are not capable to achieve this now, it becomes logical that in the near future when the people achieve a certain level of revolutionary spirit, they can deal with the warlords and traitors.


Nothing less than the punishment of death by fire-squad is acceptable to the Somali masses.

Another reason why ICC is not the right institution to prosecute them.

[Shirib]

[quote="Voltage"]There gonna say he is clinically insane and cannot stand trial after a short psychological evaluation. [/quote]

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It's true so maaha? That guy seriously deserves to be in some mental institution let alone a defense's chair in an international court.

[Shirib]

The man is confused. He's stuck between a rock and a hard place.

His clan is beginnig to hate him, and if he talks bad about the Ethiopians they are going to kill him. Either way someone is going to kill him wether it be Abgaal or Xabashi/TFG