Law society could arraign Khama before ICC

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

FRANCISTOWN: The Law Society of Botswana (LSB) will petition President Ian Khama and eventually have him arraigned before the International Criminal Court (ICC) if Khama fails to act on extra-judicial killings, LSB resolved at its annual general meeting held here over the weekend.

LSB Chairman, Tebogo Sebego says this year's AGM agenda items featured extra-judicial killings by Botswana's security forces, the Media Practitioners Act and Legal Practitioners Act.

Sebego says after a lengthy debate, lawyers attending resolved to petition Khama about ensuring that extra-judicial killings did not continue and to seek an assurance that the killings thus far recorded are fully investigated and the perpetrators brought to book.

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