Kenya MPs vote to withdraw from ICC

Good for them.

the ICC prosecutions bolstered their campaign as they portrayed it as foreign interference in Kenya's domestic affairs.

The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports from the capital, Nairobi that even though the vote does not halt the cases, it sends a powerful signal of defiance to The Hague - a sentiment that is becoming increasingly popular, in Kenya and across much of Africa....

Mr Duale noted that the US had refused to sign the Rome Statute to protect its citizens and soldiers from potential politically motivated prosecutions.

"Let us protect our citizens. Let us defend the sovereignty of the nation of Kenya," Mr Duale is quoted as saying

Certainly. It's pretty bad for the defender of democracy, particularly one who deems itself the sole arbiter of "red lines" to not sign up for the international court?

Actually I think that not only should Kenya remove itself from the ICC, it should also resign from the UN itself. That body has shown itself to be totally incapable of being anything of a neutral body upholding so called international law. I think the events of the past few years has proven beyond doubt that the UN is simply a tool of certain nations to:

1) Police other nations by whatever standards and whims the [permanent] Security Council members has for the day.

2) To provide philanthropic cover for [permanent] security council members while they put their agents into various organizations to foment dissent in target nations while bragging about how many wells they dug and how many drugs they injected.

If the UN actually had any credibility, there would be ships in the Mediterranean sea right now making it clear to the US that any actions taken against Syria would be met with [peace keeping] force. There is no justification under the UN charter for a member state (or any state) to go to war against another for any reason other than immediate self defense. If the US (or France or Britain) can bomb Syria as it did Libya then what exactly is the point of the UN Charter? And if the charter means nothing more than the paper it was printed on, then what is the point of the organization itself? It's time for the member states, which greatly outnumber the security council states to force Ban Ki Moon to either make the UN live up to it's charter and face the errant [permanent] members of the Security Council (sic) or for those states to exit the arena.