VENEZUELA hit back on Thursday night after the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a probe and MEPs ordered new sanctions. Venezuelan security officials may soon have the dubious distinction of being the first non-Africans bounced through the notorious imperialist kangaroo court in The Hague following Thursday’s announcement by ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. A Venezuelan Foreign Ministry statement rejected the move, saying it came as a surprise with no previous official communication from Ms Bensouda. Ms Bensouda said the preliminary investigation will look into MUD claims the security forces "frequently used excessive force to disperse and put down demonstrations," last year and abused some detained opposition members. Four months of opposition regime-change violence from April last year left 124 people dead, including several burned alive on the mere suspicion of being government supporters. The Gambian lawyer’s own country’s exit from the ICC was halted b...