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.
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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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