INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT'S MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Human rights activists around the globe have a reason to celebrate: an African head of state is standing trial at the feared International Criminal Court, which means the door is wide open to bring African dictators to court or quarantine them for good in their homelands. Although evidence against Mr. Kenyatta is not as strong as against Messrs. Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni ( see links below), these two gentlemen are next to be charged with crimes against humanity by the ICC. Their atrocities in the DRC are well documented by the United Nations and witnesses abound. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/794496.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/16/world/rwanda-and-uganda-battling-to-control-key-city-in-congo.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/28/f-vp-macinnes-rae-congo.html?cmp=rss

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=574&p1=3&p2=3&case=116&p3=5

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2012/843

www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/CD/DRC_MAPPING_REPORT_FINAL_EN.pdf (This is a United Nations report documenting crimes committed by the leaders of Rwanda and Uganda and others in the D.R. Congo between 1993 and 2003)

Let's schedule Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni to stand trial at The Hague in the following weeks or issue arrest warrants against them should they decide not to cooperate.

P.S. I published this opinion in the Foreign Policy Magazine on 10/10/2014 @
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/10/how_to_destroy_international_criminal_court_from_within_kenya_ICC_kenyatta_hague