ADDIS ABABA - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi lambasted the International Criminal Court on Sunday as representing a 'new form of world terrorism' that wanted to recolonise developing countries.'It is a known fact that all Third World countries are opposing the so-called ICC,' the recently elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union told a press conference at the AU headquarters here. 'This is the case right now. This court is against the countries colonised in the past and they want to recolonise now. It is a practice of a new world terrorism that is not below the standard of the other terrorism.'
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'It is not fair that a head of state should be arrested,' he said. 'If we allow such a thing... we should also try those who killed hundreds and millions of children in Iraq and in Gaza.'
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The ICC, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, does not have a police force and calls on signatory states to implement warrants.
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