THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The president of Sudan became a wanted man Wednesday when the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur -- its first action against a sitting head of state and one that could set the stage for more world leaders to be indicted. President Omar al-Bashir's government retaliated by expelling 10 humanitarian groups from Darfur and seizing their assets, a U.N. spokeswoman said.
The International Criminal Court yesterday charged a former Sudanese official and the leader of the government-backed Janjaweed militia with committing war crimes in Darfur, the first of many anticipated attempts to punish participants in the bloody ethnic conflict. The nascent court, which has been collecting evidence on Darfur for 20 months, accused Ahmad Mohammed Harun, formerly the junior interior minister in charge of the western Sudanese region, and Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb of being involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity between August 2003 and March 2004.
WASHINGTON, March 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As the UN Security Council prepares to consider referring to the International Criminal Court Sudanese individuals charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, the Bush administration continues to oppose such a move. However, a majority of Americans (60 percent) favor referring these cases to the International Criminal Court rather than using a temporary tribunal, as the administration has proposed. In a poll of 1,182 Americans by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, respondents were given the context of the debate by being told that "the UN has determined that crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed" in Darfur and that "some p...
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... remanded into custody when they appeared in court last week. The two officers were reportedly ambush... all it can to block the work of the International Criminal Court, which has accused the nation's leaader of genocide in Darfur. President Omar al-Bashir's senior adviser Ghazi S...
The last few months of relatively civil and calm relations between the United States and Europe looks like a rapprochement. First, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice kicked off her tenure in February with a fence-mending trip to Europe. Then last month the EU apparently decided not to lift its arms embargo on China. Before that, to the pleasure of Brussels, Paris and Berlin, Washington let the International Criminal Court handle Darfur and agreed to continue multilateral talks with Iran. But it's anyone's guess as to whether the good feeling will continue. Tod Lindberg, editor of Policy Review and a columnist for these pages, asked the authors of "Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America and the Future of a Troubled Partnership" to take a stab at this question, among others, in respo...
Darfur rebel leader Bahr Idriss Abu Garda appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The bill included a controversial clause that would permit southerners living outside south Sudan to cast absentee ballots. Analysts said that Bashir was trying to distance himself from his military background before being nominated to run in the multiparty presidential elections scheduled for April 2010.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The president of Sudan became a wanted man Wednesday when the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur -- its first action against a sitting head of state and one that could set the stage for more world leaders to be indicted. President Omar al-Bashir's government retaliated by expelling 10 humanitarian groups from Darfur and seizing their assets, threatening lifesaving operations, a U.N. spokeswoman said.
An opposing view appeared in the Times by Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. "I want to see justice served, but my desire for peace in Sudan is stronger," he wrote. "Given all the warring factions in Sudan, there is no guarantee that IaI-BaSIuVs] replacement would be better... Ultimately, justice will be served by a power higher than the International Criminal Court. In the meantime, justice without peace would be a hollow victory. Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu, in a New York Times editorial this week, called it "shameful" that so many African leaders have rallied around al-Bashir, who faces a possible arrest warrant over alleged war crimes in Darfur from the International Criminal Court. "Because the victims in Sudan are African, African leaders sho...
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