ICC
[2008] THE BLACK AFRICAN FALL GUYS
by Keith
Harmon Snow
Aware of their
vulnerability as black African fall guys—and soon after the ICC arrest of
Jean-Pierre Bemba—the top brass of the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces
curtailed their international travel plans and convened a special meeting at
Uganda’s Bombo army headquarters near Kampala, in June 2008, to discuss
fears of ICC warrants being issued against them.
Of course, the
U.S. Government and its business partners dictate the operations of the ICC.
While considering soldiers of the United States and its allies to be above
international humanitarian law and protected from the jurisdiction of the
ICC, the
Pentagon
has simultaneously directed the formation, operations and
legal precedents of the ICC through the involvement of members of the U.S.
military’s Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, the legal arm of the
Pentagon.