Gambia declared the choice on TV Tuesday night, blaming the court for unjustifiably focusing on Africa and calling it the "Universal Caucasian Court for the mistreatment and mortification of non-white individuals, particularly Africans."
The move comes after South Africa, once a solid ICC supporter under previous President Nelson Mandela, a week ago told the United Nations secretary-general it would leave the court. Early a week ago, Burundi's leader marked enactment to leave the court too.
The withdrawal of the African nations has been scrutinized by human rights bunches. "Despicable club of pioneers who disregard casualties of barbarity wrongdoings," the EU executive for Human Rights Watch, Lotte Leicht, tweeted Wednesday. The court was set up to seek after instances of claimed genocide, atrocities and violations against humankind.
Gambia's choice is likewise striking in light of the fact that the ICC's main prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, is Gambian. The data priest of the little West African nation, Sheriff Baba Bojang, said in the announcement late Tuesday that the court is included in "the mistreatment of Africans, and particularly their pioneers."
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