Global peace ‘will remain an illusion’ unless powerful states also held to account, says Mogoeng
Chief justice argues ‘we may just as well forget about real world peace’ unless five permanent members of UN Security Council agree to be treated same as less powerful countries GLOBAL peace will remain an illusion unless the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council agree to be treated the same way as less powerful countries, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng argued on Tuesday.Tackling the issue "head-on" was essential, he said, even though he had learnt from personal experience that it was also dangerous."I say dangerous because as a man who chooses to be very frank myself, I have in my frankness a little over a month ago come across very desperate attempts to frame me for criminal acts you can’t even begin to imagine," Justice Mogoeng told a high-level conference in Johannesburg, which is looking at Africa’s troubled relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC).He did not elaborate on what happened to him and it was not clear if he was referring to an ...
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