SACP denounces imperialist bias by the International Criminal Court
18 March 2023
The South African Communist Party (SACP) categorically denounces the unacceptable conduct by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has proven itself to be a supra-national institution at the service of imperialist states under their hegemony. This bias clearly shows why other states have not even bothered to be part of the ICC at all and why others have had to consider terminating being part of it.
March 2023 marks 20 years since the imperialist United States, as usual automatically supported by former colonial powers from Europe, invaded Iraq. The ICC ignored this, other invasions and conflicts sowed, fuelled and sponsored by the United States-led imperialist forces, and their consequences.
In justifying their invasion of Iraq, the imperialist forces used what arguably became a big and costly lie of the decade. Through their speeches, presentations, media houses, news agencies, and “independent” “experts” and “analysts”, to name but a few, the United States-led imperialist forces spread the propaganda that Iraq developed and had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
Using the BIG lie, the United States-led imperialist forces invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003, also occupying it, with no less than 130,000 troops, for approximately nine years. The invasion resulted in the killing of over 100,000 Iraqi civilians, with a massive destruction of Iraq. Joe Biden, the current United States President, voted to allow the invasion of Iraq. He was the chairperson of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.