Tag: Gbagbo
President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo who had been displaced as a result of the French intervention appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague on December 5… The countries recently enthusiastic about international justice – especially the African countries which naively expected justice from “the white people's Court” and rushed to ratify and enact the ICC statute – will likely draw a serious lesson from the Gbagbo case…
While the war against Libya is raging, another aggression possibly marking a new phase in the history of the international law is beginning to unfold. On April 5, the French forces launched an offensive supposed to lead to the seizure of Ivory Coast's legitimate president Laurent Gbagbo… Notably, in the Ivory Coast – for the first time since 1961, the year Belgian troops under the UN flag killed Patrice Lumumba in Congo – the UN “peacekeepers” openly took a role in toppling a legitimate leader of a sovereign country…