ICC: Charge Bashir or Let Taylor go!!!
I have not stopped agonising over International Criminal Court (ICC) partial action in northern Uganda by indicting only the Lord's Resistance Movement / Army (LRM/A) elements, and not also Yoweri Museveni and commanders of his National Resistance Movement / Army AKA UPDF for war crimes and crimes against humanity. And to add insult to injury, of the five indictments besides Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti, the other three are former abducted children who rose through the ranks in the LRM/ A. In any case, at the time of their indictements in 2005, they were not the most senior officers of the insurgents. More senior members of the insurgent group, Brig. Kolo and Brig. Banya, had surrendered to the government barely a year and had since been treated with kid gloves both by the ICC and the Uganda government. The puzzle I have not been able to solve is: why charge Raska Lukwiya, Dominic Ongwen and Charles Odhiambo, but let go scot free, Banya and Kolo, who abducted, trained and deploye...