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designated, but shall not be entitled to vote thereat.”
When the time for deliberations came the other judges began to hide away from Justice Sow and to meet in secret. He states:
“It is when we reached the most important part of the deliberations-which was the criminal responsibility of the accused-that the other judges started to hold meetings, but not in the deliberation rooms, but in their offices. And I wasn’t called to those meetings.
But I knew of those meetings because the legal officers told me about them. That’s how I discovered that they were hiding to meet, and I did complain in writing.”
Taylor’s conviction was bought
Clearly, this sounds more like an OO7 James Bond movie as it is difficult to fathom what can lead judges to hide away from a brother judge. The revelations made by Justice Sow are testimony to the fact that the Taylor trial was rigged. Yes, the so-called leading democracy in the world was behind it as revealed by the words of its officials. The amount of evidence buying is frightening and is aptly narrated by Justice Sow in the following manner: “. . . we saw people being taken from prison to come and testify, people being promised to be relocated, We have seen all that. Were the witnesses testifying truthfully or were influenced by the money?”
I saw in the evidence presented, too many contradictions and lies, and many witnesses denied what was attributed to them. Were they influenced by the payments they received?
The version of Justice Sow is not part of the official version of the trial. His remarks were excluded from the Court records after 26 April 2012. No legal basis has been advanced for this exclusion.
Neither has any explanation been given to the public or the accused. For taking the unprecedented step of challenging and defying a corrupt system, Justice Sow was disciplined and his powerful statement of justice removed from the Court records. However, the truth cannot be silenced forever. Those who took “blood money” in order to secure the conviction of an innocent man shall pay for it one day.
Justice Sow’s verdict of Taylor is as follows:
“He should have been a free man at this stage because I haven’t seen the proof of guilt of the accused. This is what I have said. I’m a professional judge and I’m bound by the evidence. I have serious doubts about the evidence. The prosecution case is altogether very unsatisfactory, inherently disharmonious, and filled with too many confusions and inaccuracies; and this, to my opinion, is fatal to the prosecution’s case. If you don’t see the truth, at least you must see the lies, too many deceptions, and I haven’t seen any proof of the guilt of the accused.”
The imperialist US Government, through its C.I.A. operatives, then master minded the disciplining of Justice Sow without him being given an opportunity to respond to the allegations against him.
However, another courageous judge served the interests of justice although he too was overwhelmed by the evil forces put forward by the US That man is Justice George Gelaga King. He narrates the
Kangaroo proceedings as follows:
“At the start of the deliberations (of the disciplinary action against Justice Sow) . . . Justice Julia Sebutinde of Trial Chamber II read a 6-page statement on behalf of Trial Chamber II, which purported to be a complaint against Justice Malick Sow. The Appeals Chamber Judges of the Emergency Plenary were only appraised of this statement at the time it was read by Justice Sebutinde who was not the presiding judge of Trial Chamber II.
A fortiori, Justice Malick Sow, against whom the allegations in the statement were made, was not given prior notice of it, and, consequently, had not been given the opportunity to respond. I (justice King) objected to the procedural irregularity, which patently impinged on Justice Malick Sow’s right to be heard, stating that it was against the basis principles of natural justice, and submitted that the Emergency Plenary could not deliberate on the matter and that the views of and recommendations of the judges could not be sought when Justice Malick Sow had not been given an opportunity to respond to what were, to all intents and purposes, ‘new’ allegations against him.
I warned the teleconference that unless Justice Malick Sow was given time to reply to the sudden and scurrilous allegations made against him by Justice Julia Sebutinde, the refusal to give him time to respond was tantamount to “a pervasion of justice”. I informed my colleagues that, accordingly, I was not, from that moment taking any further part in the Emergency Plenary. I then walked out of the conference room and the Emergency Plenary.”
The US and its allies were so ruthless that even an esteemed professional judge was not spared the evil rod. Justice Julia Sebutinde, an African, was used to unjustly lay allegations against her brother. The age old tactic of divide and rule was implemented. The basic tenets of justice were not even applied. Even criminals in ordinary criminal court are given notice of the charges against them. Justice Sow was not.
All because he had represented the eternal and immutable interests of justice.
The hearings conducted by my headman in Zaka, a man who never went to school, comply with this immutable facet of natural justice.
leeroy