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...Moreno-Ocampo tells it, his pursuit of al-Bashir over the past three years has come in the face of diplomatic obstruction and political accommodation. It was, in his eyes, predictable that the Sudanese would withhold visas, deny access to crime scenes and establish bogus trials in an effort to obviate the need for the ICC. But what he found surprising and dispiriting was that high-ranking international diplomats ignored, and even seemed to discourage, his efforts. The U.N. instead tried to negotiate the deployment of additional peacekeepers to Darfur as a solution to the crisis. But Sudan rejected...
...threw the Sudanese into a panic, Moreno-Ocampo says, and they dispatched an ambassador with a question: "Suppose Haroun comes to the Hague and says he was only following instruction - do you have to investigate the person who gave the instructions?" Moreno-Ocampo believes the inquiry was about President al-Bashir...
Moreno-Ocampo expected diplomats to exploit Sudan's panic as a negotiating tool. Instead, he says, the U.N. and the U.S. tried to assuage al-Bashir and his men, telling the Khartoum government, "Don't worry about the prosecutor. Just accept the peacekeepers and nothing will happen." Moreno-Ocampo says the big powers feared that the ICC's obsession with Darfur would get in the way of a peace deal between the politically dominant north and the oil-rich south that ended two decades of civil war in Sudan. The Sudanese took their cue and decided to reject notification...
...August 2007, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon went to Khartoum with his political negotiators - without the ICC charges on any schedule for discussion. He talked privately with Bashir about the ICC and arresting Haroun; Bashir refused. As if to show the prosecutor just how impotent the ICC was, al-Bashir promoted Haroun and expanded his influence a week after Ban Ki-moon left the country. In his new position as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Haroun was able to routinely block humanitarian aid to the 2.5 million Darfuris trapped in refugee camps. In addition, he was given three new titles...
...October, Moreno-Ocampo felt that his case against al-Bashir was clear. But he faced a U.N. that seemed out of touch with what was going on in Darfur. Diplomats at the world body began calling violence in Darfur "intra-tribal clashes" - reminiscent of the "ancient tribal hatreds" definition that stalled intervention in Bosnia for so long. "I said the janjaweed and the army attacked in September and October, and this is not intra-tribal clashes," says Moreno-Ocampo. "Haroun obstructing humanitarian assistance in the camps is not intra-tribal clashes." Moreno-Ocampo challenged the Security Council, asking why they...