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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, over the years, this process has now been politicized beyond belief. While I was supporting a local tribunal, we did not support the withdrawal from the Rome Statute. We have had many ad hoc committees and tribunals whose findings are never publicized. If they are, their recommendations are never implemented. I have heard my colleagues say that if I want to become the President of this nation, all I have to do is to eliminate all my competition and then ascend to the presidency and say: “Now that I am a President, I cannot be prosecuted.” The political sword is double edged; it will cut on one side and come on the other side. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want us to be sober. This Motion was brought at a very wrong time. The implications internationally are that we are trying to hide something. Honestly speaking, as one who might still end up at The Hague anyway, or any other place, I want a process that is devoid of political interference and that does not have any ethnic overtones. Under the circumstances, I believe that our brothers have got a wonderful chance to be vindicated at The Hague. After the verdict is given that they are innocent, nobody will cry foul and say: “They were vindicated because the judge happens to come from the same ethnic group with them.” In my opinion, we are blind to some issues and raise political temperatures for no reason. Why do we not allow this process, which in my opinion, I have a sixth sense that tells me that they are going to be vindicated and not just locally, but internationally so that even as they travel internationally anybody who was suspecting that they were involved in anything will know that these were leaders who were completely innocent."
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