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Try suspected terror groups in Hague, says AGF Malami

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Calls are mounting for suspected terrorist groups to be sent to the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Netherlands to face trial.

Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has renewed the country’s call on the world community, especially members of the United Nations Security Council to allow the trial of non-State parties who perpetrate war crimes at the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Netherlands.

Malami made the call in a speech he delivered at the 17th Session of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC at the Hague on Wednesday December 5.

 

“Nigeria calls on the United Nations and indeed the entire global community to have a sober reflection on the sufferings of victims of wars worldwide and as quickly as possible remove all impediments , including that posed by the Veto power at the UN Security Council, which prevents referrals of non-state parties that have committed serious violations of the Rome Statute from being made and thereby denying international criminal justice.”

If the proposal is accepted, it would make it possible for insurgent groups such as the Boko Haram to be dragged before the court to face charges of war crimes.

“The fight against impunity and commission of atrocious crimes is still far from being won. The sanctity of human life is still being desecrated, prohibited and weapons are still being deployed to commit mass murder, while perpetrators go unpunished. Meanwhile, victims’ lives are ravaged and their peaceful communal co-existence truncated,

“Nigeria has demonstrated beyond any iota of doubts that it is capable, willing and indeed is arresting, investigating, prosecuting and convicting, where the facts of the cases warrant, the perpetrators of heinous crimes in fulfilment of our primary national jurisdiction over Rome Statute crimes.”

He revealed that Nigeria is currently being examined by the Court regarding eight potential   cases (six against the Boko Haram terrorists and two against the military), stressing that it is on record that the country has fully cooperated with the court in its efforts to unravel the facts and to get to the bottom of the cases.

Malami reminded the world that Nigeria was still fighting a deadly Boko Haram insurgency, a war he described as “unconventional and asymmetrical” and unlike conventional warfare “in which enemies can easily be distinguished by their uniforms.”

He said the war against insurgency is such that the Nigerian military has made “supreme sacrifices” in its laudable effort to decimate the violent groups.

He commended the Nigerian Military for prosecuting the war against insurgents within its strict rules of engagement, even as he disclosed that the Federal Government had taken all allegations of abuses by the military serious.

“The government of Nigeria takes all allegations of human rights and other violations against military personnel seriously and thoroughly investigates them, and when credible, has brought some members of the military to trial,” he said.

He assured the global audience at the event of Nigeria’s commitment to her obligations under the Rome Statute and pledged that the country would work to safeguard the integrity of the Rome Statute and its cornerstone principles.

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