Yoweri Museveni Quotes
I've changed my mind, even against Omar al-Bashir. Whether he has to be charged or not, the Sudanese shall decide or the Africans.
Museveni, Yoweri. "Ugandan President on the ICC and the West: 'We Can Deal with It Ourselves'." Interview by Ralf Neukirch. Der Spiegel, 7 Apr. 2016.
The Justice Department had sent a memorandum arguing that since Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups did not represent any state, were not signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and commonly committed atrocities in violation of the Geneva Conventions, then there was no obligation for America, or any signatory nation, to protect captives of these terrorist organizations. See {589866} for a contrary position that was taken.
This manual was still in force during the Iraq war 50 years later.
South Africa, with the fall of apartheid, instead of arresting, trying, and sentencing the worst of the old regime, elected a truth commission approach instead.
This statement was made before the 2012 Syrian Revolution.
While not all the indictments of the International Criminal Court were against Africans the majority were. Some African leaders thought that a double standard was being used against them. Banda’ observed that African unity was made extremely difficult as several heads of African states were indicted war criminals, and under the Rome Treaty which had been signed by most African nations obligated them to arrest indicted war criminals who were on their soil. So the African states could not hold a meeting of all African leaders without the host country being in the dilemma of whether or not to arrest them. In reality, in the decades leading up to this quotation, most of the worst atrocities did occur in Africa. The Presidents of the Sudan and Kenya were both indicted war criminals as well as some other officials and revolutionary group leaders. At the time the United States had not ratified the Treaty of Rome and this was not the best example for the Africans. However they had ratified it.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni also known as Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni is a politician who has served as President of Uganda since 1986. Museveni was involved in rebellions that toppled Ugandan leaders Idi Amin (1971–79) and Milton Obote (1980–85) before he captured power in 1986.
