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Where do overthrown dictators go to retire?
Where do overthrown dictators go to retire?
Wherever will take them, there will be a lot of countries willing to accept him. He tried to do a deal a few weeks back to step down in exchange for a good chunk of money and a guarantee of no future prosecution.
Colonel Qaddafi addressed President Obama as “our son,” in a letter that combined pleas with a jarring familiarity. “I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me,” he wrote.
Syria or Morocco?
Mister monkey I hope they don't bomb Sicily by mistake![]()
Where do overthrown dictators go to retire?
Several African nations could take Qaddafi, the diplomat said, citing Ethiopia or Mauritania as examples. The likeliest countries to let him in are those that aren’t parties to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court, a tribunal based in The Hague that seeks to try despots charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.
“All you need is one country to take him,” Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, said in a telephone interview. “Uganda sounds like a good option. We are most likely talking about Africa.”
So far, the ICC has six open investigations, all of which are in Africa: Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Sudan, Kenya and Libya. Notable non-ICC African countries include Angola, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, and Zimbabwe.