ICC issues arrest warrant for genocide against Bashir

[basketcase]

It seems that at least one international body is able to focus on a real genocide and an international travesty.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for orchestrating genocide in the Darfur region, where as many as 300,000 people have died since 2003.

The genocide charge follows an ICC arrest warrant issued against Bashir in March 2009 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He has dismissed the court's claims.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE66B55A20100712

Of course, the Arab League, the African Union and their patron China seem to be unhappy about this.

 

[gryfin]

It seems that at least one international body is able to focus on a real genocide and an international travesty.


http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE66B55A20100712

Of course, the Arab League, the African Union and their patron China seem to be unhappy about this.

And effectively negating the "double standard" straw man that zionists instinctively turn to. Thanks to TERB's hapless straight man.

 

[Aardvark154]

an international travesty.

Not exactly the right words to describe the ICC, perhaps a troubling international development with great potential for abuse. Major states have refused to adhere to it for that very reason.

 

[basketcase]

I was commenting more on the lack of international action or comment on the slaughter of around 300,000 and not the ICC itself.

 

[Aardvark154]

I was commenting more on the lack of international action or comment on the slaughter of around 300,000 and not the ICC itself.

I agree about the situation in Darfur. However, if there are a fair number of people who believe the military should pull out of Afghanistan tomorrow. For how long would they support a mission in Southern Sudan particularly if it started going the way of the U.S. peacekeeping mission in Somalia?

 

[basketcase]

A full on UN mission with actual powers to act would be nice but since it seems half the UN supports Sudan it's not likely.

 

[yechielmarzel]

And effectively negating the "double standard" straw man that zionists instinctively turn to. Thanks to TERB's hapless straight man.

Yes, it's just Zionists that turn to this "double standard", not the people at the UN who possess brains.

In 2006, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan argued that the Commission should not have a "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel. Not that Israel should be given a free pass. Absolutely not. But the Council should give the same attention to grave violations committed by other states as well."[40]

On 20 June 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement that read: "The Secretary-General is disappointed at the council's decision to single out only one specific regional item given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world."

If anybody wants to read further about why the UNHRC is entirely useless, I suggest this link, starting from the International response to election of Richard Falk as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the "Disputed Palestinian Territories." entry, and then continuing on to the Israel section. It will enlighten you to what your own officials from Canada and the USA think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council

 

[Cinema Face]

It isn't Israel so no one cares.

 

[seth gecko]

Someone please correct me if I`m wrong, but I beleive the title should be "ICC issues another arrest warrant for genocide against Bashir"........ I remember a warrant from early 2009 (crimes against humanity, maybe?)
Forget about the Blue Berets doing anything in Sudan; not a slam against the UN, but they`re not suited for the job of trying to bring this guy in.
Find the highest, least-tainted member of his gov`t who would be agreeable to a few dozen western advisors (and a few million western $$) and encourage this fellow to "unseat" the Prez.
The UN, ICC, GC, etc presently don`t carry much (if any) weight in Sudan, and this will very likely become one of those scenarios where someone will have to break the rules set by these bodies to execute their wishes.

Just my opinion

 

[basketcase]

Yes, the difference here is the term genocide was the crime he was charged with this time (considered to be a more serious charge).

 

[seth gecko]

Bashir Returns to Sudan After Defying ICC In Chad
By REUTERS

Published: July 23, 2010

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir returned to Sudan on Friday after defying indictment for genocide by visiting Chad, a party to the International Criminal Court and so in theory obliged to arrest him.
Chadian President Idriss Deby instead gave a red-carpet welcome to Bashir, who spent three days in N'Djamena scoring a propaganda coup and exposing the ICC's key weakness -- its lack of a mechanism to arrest war crimes suspects.
Bashir landed at Khartoum airport on Friday evening and he shook hands with around a dozen ministers.
Foreign Minister Ali Karti, returning from Chad with Bashir, blasted European nations -- key supporters of the court -- and Washington which, despite failing to join the ICC itself, has said Sudan should cooperate with The Hague-based institution.
"This court has become just a European court (formed) to judge Africans," Karti told reporters. "Now the Africans have strongly rejected it and that is what is important to us."
The African Union has told its member states not to cooperate with the ICC, accusing the court of targeting the continent.
Deby voiced support for the court during a proxy war with Sudan which began in 2003 but, after a rapprochement this year with Bashir, Sudanese officials said they were confident he would not hand him over to the ICC.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Bashir in 2009 accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity during a counter-insurgency campaign in the western Darfur region which borders Chad. This month it added genocide to the charges.
Bashir ridicules the court and has wooed African and Arab support to defy the arrest warrant, the first the court has issued for a sitting head of state.
The United Nations estimates some 300,000 have died in a humanitarian crisis sparked after Khartoum mobilised militia to quell a revolt by insurgents demanding more wealth and power for the remote region. Many of those rebel leaders are from the same Zaghawa tribe as Deby.
Diplomats in Khartoum say Deby, whose capital has been twice attacked by Chadian rebels supported by Sudan since 2006, appears to have decided friendly neighbourly relations are more important to his survival than his commitment to the ICC.
Bashir's government helped Deby take power in his 1990 coup, also launched from Darfur.
(Reporting by Opheera McDoom and al-Tayyib Siddig; editing by Andrew Roche)

The Chetniks, the Hutus and now the Djinjawid have all understood and exploited the failings of bodies like the ICC.

 

[scouser1]

there have been failings of the ICC and the fact that there are so many economic goodies to be had in Sudan means that this low life will probably never see a day in court. Mind you when southern Sudan has a referendum next year and does secede taking some of those economic goodies with them, things might change.

 

[landscaper]

Yes, the difference here is the term genocide was the crime he was charged with this time (considered to be a more serious charge).

Just wondering why mass murder is worse than genocide? One death is a tragedy and 300000 is a statistic, apparantly the world agrees thit Mr Stalin....

 

[seth gecko]

ICC Asks UN to Act Against Kenya
VOA News 28 August 2010


The International Criminal Court is asking the U.N. Security Council to take action against Kenya for hosting Sudan's president in defiance of international warrants for his arrest.

ICC judges in The Hague said Friday Kenya has a "clear obligation" as a member of the court to cooperate in enforcing its arrest warrants for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

Mr. Bashir was one of several regional leaders who traveled to Nairobi for Friday's ceremonial signing of the new Kenyan constitution. Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula says Mr. Bashir was invited because he is the head of a friendly neighboring state.

Mr. Bashir is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Sudan's Darfur region, where the government has been been fighting rebels since 2003. The United Nations estimates the conflict has killed 300,000 people.

The ICC said it is reporting Kenya to the U.N. Security Council in order for the Council to "take any measure it may deem appropriate."

U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday he is "disappointed" that Kenya hosted President Bashir, and he urged Nairobi to "honor its commitments to the ICC and to international justice."

The ICC issued its first arrest warrant against Mr. Bashir in 2009. Since then, he has visited several regional states that are not full members of the court, including Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Kenya is the second full ICC member to invite Mr. Bashir in defiance of the warrants. Chad became the first when it hosted the Sudanese president earlier this year.

Rights activists say Kenya's hosting of Mr. Bashir raises questions about its commitment to cooperate with ICC investigations of the country's post-election violence of 2007 to 2008.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo is investigating allegations of crimes against humanity committed during the unrest and expects to charge several suspects by the end of this year.

 

[toguy5252]

And effectively negating the "double standard" straw man that zionists instinctively turn to. Thanks to TERB's hapless straight man.

LOL. This coming from gryfin, TERB's resident clown. And a pathetic clown at that.