Striking a Balance Between Fact and Fiction

Posted to the web 23 July 2008 Kenedy Ndahiro Kigali An interesting article appeared in a Ugandan daily, Daily Monitor, penned by Timothy Kalyegira. The article entitled: "Can the ICC deliver true justice across the world?" first takes a swipe at the Uganda legal fraternity with the salvo ending with a disappointing "most are little different from the man on the street". Next in the line of fire comes the international judicial system for its ineffectiveness and being prone to manipulation from the type of 'Big Brother' described in George Orwell's '1994'. In the book, there is something known as the 'Thought Police" who prosecute "thought crimes" (whether they have thought-o-metres is anyone's guess), but we'll come back to that later. The article in Daily Monitor makes good reading until one comes to where the author turns... [read full story]