A day after the Argentine government confirmed that it will withdraw the country from the World Health Organization (WHO), Javier Milei announced that he prepares a complaint against the head of the agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, for crimes of ‘lesa humanity’ before the International Criminal Court.
The argument of the Milei government, according to the main local media, is that- according to the opinion of the Head of State- the health agency would have breached the Article 7 of the Rome Statutewhere the Crimes of ‘Lesa Humanidad’. Thus crimes linked to slavery and inhuman acts are condemned promptly.
According to the Argentine president, the quarantines promoted by WHO In the context of the pandemic they would register within the crime of slavery stipulated in the statute. The same document explains that “it will be understood by ‘crime against humanity’ any of the following acts when it is committed as part of a generalized or systematic attack against a civilian population and with knowledge of said attack.”
Other possible complaints at the local level
This demand is expected against the WHO director to have in a replica throughout the country. The Rosada House would have plannedvandine at the local level with a series of complaints For the sanitary measures implemented five years ago by the then Head of State, Alberto Fernández, and who was a Minister of Health of Argentina at that time, Ginés González García-who died in 2024-.
This week, in statements to the French environment ‘Le Point’, the president had had harsh words towards WHO. Retrieved by Argentina’s departure from the organization, he had said: «It is a criminal organization. And I choose my words carefully. The WHO was responsible for crimes against large -scale humanity during the Covid pandemic, as defined in article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ». In the same interview, the economist anticipated his intention to also leave the Paris agreement.
Although President Milei’s criticism is known to the management of quarantine by the previous government, in the last hours the president was questioned after a 2020 television interview came to light in which he defended the confinement. There he referred to Alberto Fernández’s decisions in the matter as “Bright.” “The irresponsible ones who walk along the route, which is a lot of people,” he said at the time. And, in reference to the former president, he argued: «What he did was brilliant. The Italian case was brilliant: show that those irresponsible who put the rest at risk will fall with all the force the Criminal Code ».
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