Uganda, Jan. 28 -- Uganda's Julia Sebutinde is one of the two judges who voted mostly against the six emergency measures in response to South Africa's genocide case against Israel, leaving many observers around the world dazed and confused.

Justice Sebutinde, who is serving the second and last term on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) bench, cast the only dissenting vote against all measures by the 17-judge panel. Israel's appointed ad-hoc judge, Aharon Barak, voted in favour of two and ruled against four measures, in the case closely watched around the world.

As the world's highest court, the ICJ, provides advisory opinions on legal conundrums submitted by other UN organs or agencies, and also adjudicates legal disputes between ...