Botswana Urges Accountability as African Peers Rebel Against ICC
- Leaders’ best defense is not to abuse power, Masisi Says
- Vice President Masisi is potential successor to leader Khama
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Botswana has defended the International Criminal Court, even as some of its continental peers threaten to revoke their membership of the tribunal they accuse of being biased against Africans.
“The best defense is not to abuse, stick to the law,” Botswana’s Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi said in a July 17 interview at an African Union summit in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. “We would never allow our president to get away with murder. We are not being prescriptive, we are just asking that we up the game.”