Protesters tell Bush to 'make tea, not war' - Dakar

[dArKeR]

Dakar - Only hours before the arrival in Senegal of President George Bush, a group of about 40 intellectuals and political activists mounted a street protest denouncing the United States leader, notably for his government's policies on the newly-created International Criminal Court.

The protesters marched through the streets of the Senagalese capital Dakar on Monday chanting "Bush is a criminal - send Blair to the International Criminal Court", and "Wade is implicated", in reference to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade.

"We are protesting against the arrival of Bush because of his failure to observe international law, his policy of hegemony and the blackmail he is exerting over the International Criminal Court," said Malick Ndiaye, an academic who organised the protest on behalf of the Senegalese Intellectuals' Action Committee.

The United States is campaigning to have its nationals made exempt from prosecution by the United Nation's International Criminal Court, set up to try war crimes and genocide anywhere in the world, and is threatening countries which refuse to provide such an exemption with a cut-off of aid.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1057644541459B212&set_id=1

[MaineDem]

1. Hooray for the Senegalese!

Good job!!!

[JoFerret]

2. Thanks Africa

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