Her impartiality would matter if she engages in selective prosecution I.e Bashir vs Jammeh, which may be the concern here.



Thanks



Demba 

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Subject: [G_L] Pertinent Questions on Mrs Bensouda's Impartiality to balance Gov't support vs Execution of Duty??A Rejoinder to LJD's piece!!!



But does she have to be impartial? She is not a judge but a prosecutor. The

only serious issue here is her allege use of threats to bully a magistrate

over a judicial decision. That is a very serious offence.



LJD is right. He was not answerable to the Honourable Minister as she then

was but to the Chief Justice and I commend him for his fearless stand in

defence of the cardinal principle of seperation of powers and judicial

independence.



Well done Jula



Daffeh



On Monday, 6 August 2012, C. Omar Kebbeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Leave the woman to do her job!.

>

> You guys need to deal with the issues in your camp and stop complaining

about everything and anything. The icc is bigger than miss bensouda, and if

jammeh is such a criminal as claimed here, bensouda cannot stop the court

from issuing an arrest warrant for him, just like they did el bashier.

>

> Who is there to corroborate Ljds claims. The whole thing flows like

fiction. For Ansu, no one should take him seriously. He will continue to

hide under this fake identity forever. This is one reason many don't take

the opposition camp seriously. You will never solve any problems and yet

continue to complain.

>

> Leave bensouda alone to do her job. If jammeh is such a problem for you,

get a ticket and go join halifa and sisia, who with all your claims that

Gambia is hell are still there fi

> ghting for Gambians. We have heard enough of your unending complaints,

now it is time for action.

> On Sunday, August 5, 2012, Haruna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> Thank you Demba for sharing the intelligent and articulate Ansu Koroma

and Gainako. I share Ansu's sentiments in their entirety to include my

disaffection with Hon. Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda from jump. Like

Ansu, I understood her appointment has very little to do with gender

politics but everything to do with the odiously sequestered nature of

international cartels.

>>

>> I would like to offer this amicus to my friend Ansu related to his

comment that because our local institutions are not strong enough, we can

be forgiven for looking outside of them for secours.

>>

>> In agreement with Hon. LJD, and LJD was aware of the limitations of our

local institutions in accruing salvation, Ansu had declared we look inward.

And it is precisely because all local effort prior had not succeeded that

Ansu suggested we look FURTHER inward. The success or failure of

proprietary mechanics depends largely on design and input management. When

we speak of civil society and political formations, the input is "we the

people". It was never going to be easy and the road ahead is no more

promising. I am of the firm belief that the best, not the only, solutions

to mankind's problems do necessarily come from those who participated in

one way or the other to inure the problems in the first place.

>>

>> The looking inward that Ansu and LJD allude to goes along this same

theme. It will require greater commitment and ingenuity but we have the

solution to our problem of Yahya. Hon. Bensouda is manifest product of that

problem for which we shall accrue solution. Together!

>>

>> The Universal Declaration on Human Rights was a result of a landmark

effort after WWII and in reaction to a scale of crime unprecedented prior.

Since its adoption, the calendar of crime has not abated much. Its

implementation is based on a structure of peer review and no protocol. The

missing link in the efficacy of international declarations is "We the

people" whom they are all too eager to ignore when it matters most. Brother

Ansu alluded to "the wall street party", "Occupy", the "Arab Spring", and

other such protocol. I look eagerly forward to hearing brother Ansu again

on the missing link of the holy grails.

>>

>> Haruna.

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]>

>> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>

>> Sent: Sun, Aug 5, 2012 7:07 pm

>> Subject: [G_L] Pertinent Questions on Mrs Bensouda's Impartiality to

balance Gov't support vs Execution of Duty??A Rejoinder to LJD's piece!!!

>>

>>

>> "What I’m about to say may come as a surprise but public criticism of

Jammeh, in his capacity as Head of State, by ICC Chief Prosecutor, in my

view, would be inappropriate behavior and devoid of protocol.   However, it

would have been within diplomatic bounce to denounce dictatorships in

general as fertile ground for civil strife that can lead to international

criminal acts.  She missed the opportunity to announce her stance on

repressive governments and the importance of human rights - a missed

opportunity that didn't go unnoticed among human rights activists around

the world". A. Koroma

>>

>> It is obvious this debate is bringing to light more questions not only

about Mrs Bensouda's role, but the larger government and institutional

influence over poitical and diplomatic appointees. Can somebody be

effective and impartial when their success can be attributed to a country's

or institution's sponsorship?

>>

>> Would other African dictators/governments use the Bensouda

interview/stance on Human rights in the Gambia against her credibility?

>>

>>

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2012/07/20127792042321699.html

>>

>> Would the failures of an African ICC prosecutor be used against

Africans' inability to address their own political and human rights

problems?

>>

>> Is there a historical paralel to the failures of the African Commission

on Human Rights headquarters locations; The AU and ECOWAS chairmanship and

or membership? to this government/institutional support appointment?

>>

>> Read the substance of the Rejoinder by A. Koroma @

http://www.gainako.com/news/  and be the judge.

>>

>> Thanks for reading...

>> Demba

>>

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