加纳前政府发言人帕尔格雷夫·博阿基耶-丹夸与反恐安全分析师埃曼纽尔·科廷向国际刑事法院提交请愿书，要求调查南非针对外国人的暴力事件 [1]。两人在请愿中声称这些暴力"可能构成反人类罪"，并指控南非政府未能防止和惩罚相关责任人 [1]。
南非外交部驳斥该请愿为"投机性的"，辩称国家法律制度足以处理此类事务 [1]。南非当局表示，已遣返或自愿遣返超过53,000名外国人 [1]。与此同时，法新社统计数据显示过去两个月内有超过160,000人离开南非 [1]。
反移民团体已将6月30日设定为无证移民的强制离境最后期限 [1]。南非目前有超过300万已登记的外国人 [1]。国际刑事法院尚未就是否考虑该请愿发表公开评论 [1]。西非经共体领导人日前谴责了报道中出现的暴力事件 [1]。
Two Ghanaian citizens—Palgrave Boakye-Danquah, a former government spokesperson, and Emmanuel Kotting, a counter-terrorism security analyst—have filed a petition with the International Criminal Court seeking an investigation into violence against foreign nationals in South Africa [1]. The petitioners argue that the attacks may constitute crimes against humanity and that South African authorities have failed to prevent and hold perpetrators accountable [1].
South Africa's foreign ministry dismissed the petition as "opportunistic," asserting that the country's legal system is equipped to handle such matters [1]. The ICC has not yet made public comment on whether it will consider the petition [1].
The violence has triggered significant migration flows. South African authorities report deporting or securing voluntary departures of more than 53,000 foreign nationals [1], while data compiled by Agence France-Presse indicates that over 160,000 people have left South Africa in the past two months [1]. Anti-migrant groups have set June 30 as a deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave the country [1].
South Africa is home to over 3 million registered foreign residents [1]. On Sunday, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States condemned the reported violence [1].