On
Friday June 15, 2012, Gambian-born international criminal justice
Lawyer Fatou Bensouda rose to the highest position of Chief Prosecutor,
at the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, Netherlands.
She
becomes the first African to hold the position since the establishment
of the ICC some ten years ago.
The ICC's mandate is to prosecute
individuals for genocide crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the
crime of aggression.
Bensouda's accession is, and
will for years to come be a significant representation not only for her
as a person but for the continent she comes from, and where she learnt
the ropes of becoming a good Lawyer - Africa.
Her
rise to the position comes at a time when the ICC is facing a lot of
pressure from the African Union for what the union feels, is the
international court's lack of even-handedness in dealing with cases from
the region, and how the ICC can do a lot to prove its innocence over
claims of selective justice perceived by some of member states of the
AU.
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