Hotel Rwanda -- Western imperialists told to check out

On the topic of Darfur, Rwandan President Paul Kagame is against colonialism, slavery and imperialism. He's also the president of a country recovering from a genocide 14 years ago that killed as many as half a million people. So you might expect that when President Kagame is talking about colonialism, slavery and imperialism in the context of Darfur, he would be levelling those charges at the Sudanese government, and that he wants the Darfur's killers brought to justice. But you would be wrong.

On Thursday, Agence-France-Presse reports, President Kagame levelled those charges not at the Bashir regime in Khartoum but at the International Criminal Court.

Apparently unaware that the ICC prosecuted former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic and is about to do the same to the one-time president of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, Kagame said the ICC ""has been put in place only for African countries, only for poor countries." Rwanda, he said, "cannot be part of that colonialism, slavery and imperialism.

Kagame was referring to the ICC prosecutor's call for an arrest warrant to be served on Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on war crimes charges over the conflict in Darfur, where Rwanda has some 2,600 peacekeepers.

I'm thinking that he's worried he might be next, given Rwanda's recent role in the Congo's civil where, where hundreds of thousands are said to have died. Otherwise, it's truly inexplicable.