In this episode of ‘Going Underground,’ host Afshin Rattansi interviewed Professor PLO Lumumba, Pan-Africanist scholar and former director of the Kenya School of Law. They discussed the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its bias against African leaders while ignoring the crimes of Western leaders. Lumumba argues the ICC is a tool of neo-colonialism and that it no longer has legitimacy or credibility in Africa.
The ICC has mainly targeted African leaders, such as Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, and Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Western leaders, such as US President George W. Bush, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama. He calls for the disbandment of the International Criminal Court.
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