It is not a cobblestone that the International Criminal Court (ICC) threw into the pond on March 17, but rather a phosphorus bomb in the Sea of Azov, with the arrest warrant issued by this permanent court. against the very spiteful Russian President, Vladimir Putin, following the deportation of more than 16,000 children from the occupied Ukrainian territories to the Russian Federation, less than a month after the outbreak of hostilities, on February 24, 2022. Errors and omissions excepted , the tenant of the Kremlin is the third head of state in office to be wanted by the ICC, after the Sudanese Omar El Bashir and the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi. The two previous mandates could not be executed for various reasons, and it is very likely that the latter will meet the same fate, especially since he is targeting one of the most powerful and rebellious heads of state in the world. . Some relatives of the Russian president laugh at this « tissue of morons presented by the prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan, others laugh at a « paper toilet brandished by the West to « amuse the gallery “, while the most radical believe that this arrest warrant will have no more impact or effect than “the fart of a midge”.
It remains to be seen whether Putin will royally ignore this international wanted notice.
The verb is very high and the formulas very flowery on the Moscow side, but we are not sure that the very paranoid Vladimir Poutine is serene for all that, since he now knows he is in the eye of the storm as soon as he leaves territories of the Russian Federation. It remains to be seen whether he will royally ignore this international search notice by going to countries that are allies of Russia or that have not ratified the Rome Statute, knowing that there is no risk that he will be arrested and transferred to The Hague to answer for alleged crimes of deportation of children committed by the Russians in the Ukrainian regions of Donesk and Lugansk in particular. Many analysts believe that no persecution complex can compel this man with a fixed gaze and cold reactions, to barricade himself within the borders of his country, even if it is obvious that he will be careful there. where he will henceforth set foot so as not to bear the brunt of this international hunt, which his sworn enemies in NATO rejoice in. The latter also know that it is easier to do geometry in space than to carry out this arrest warrant, especially since the risk is great of seeing nuclear Russia react by all means. to avenge the affront, if its current president were to be presented to the whole world in the hands of his enemies and before judges for accountability, when other presidents, in particular Georges Bush, should have preceded him at the helm, for the monstrosities committed by their troops and at their instigation, in Iraq in particular.
We cannot exhibit defenseless populations as the spoils of war
Never mind, it is already a highly symbolic act to put international justice on the heels of a man as omnipotent as Vladimir Putin, as if to say to Africans who denounce this variable geometry justice which lays its hands on lamplighters while letting the big fish pass through the meshes of the net, that no one is safe from legal wrath if his guilt were to be documented or established. However, up to now, the ICC’s main clients have come mainly from the African continent, with the Ivorians Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé, the Kenyans William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta, the Congolese Thomas Lubanga and Jean Pierre Bemba, without forgetting those who have been in the sights of the Court without ever being arrested, like the Ugandan Joseph Kony, the Sudanese Omar El Bashir and the Libyan Seif al-Islam Gaddafi. But with the ” manhunt launched by the international jurisdiction against the president of a country having the atomic bomb and in addition a permanent member of the UN Security Council, it is a subliminal message and a free warning launched to the African satraps whose countries are at war and who kill as much as they can during the fighting which sometimes leads to ethnic cleansing. These human disasters and these horror film sets recorded here and there, under various pretexts, are all documented and will one day be enforceable against the presumed authors who act more with blood than with neurons, and who do not know that the The grave silence of the international community is not synonymous with a blank check to massacre innocent populations. The issuance of international arrest warrants against Putin and against his commissioner for the rights of the child, Maria Belova, will mark a milestone, and will remind the heads of state of the continent that everything is paid for here below, as the saying goes. . We cannot exhibit defenseless populations as war booty or brandish the bodies of presumed innocent individuals as war trophies, counting on alleged supporters or false friends who are like the shadows: they follow you in the light, but leave you aside as soon as darkness appears. Hopefully, the court tiles threatening to fall on Putin’s head will be enough of a deterrent for the « until auputinists Africans, and will serve as a lesson to all those around the world who believe that they can use their power and their means to silence their fellow human beings, with complete impunity and without the slightest risk.
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