The problem with the ICC is that in trying to do what states have failed to do, it has gone about it in an unorthodox manner. It has failed to set up an investigative arm of the court and thus relies on busy body NGO types and so-called human rights organisations to collect evidence. These fellows have their own prejudices and eagerly kowtow to their masters and could easily sell their mothers for thirty pieces of silver. When you turn this into hundreds of thousands of dollars, or millions, well, anything goes. Witness the debacle that is the Kenyan cases.

In any case these guys do not have the expertise to carry out investigations. Yet the need for such expertise is dire if the court is to try people with crimes against humanity.

One can with hindsight understand the reluctance of the good old USA in declining to ratify the Rome Statute. As to the question as to whether the ICC targets African countries, the counter question then becomes why is it that all the cases the court has handled so far only involves Africans? We all know that atrocities against humankind are littered all over the world.