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Ever since the International Criminal Court began pursuing allegations of war crimes in Darfur in 2005, its investigators have pursued a government-backed militia leader known as "the colonel of colonels." Ali Muhammad Ali Abd Al Rahman - a.k.a. Ali Kushayb - was high in the pantheon of the Janjaweed militia when a warrant was finally issued for his arrest in February 2007. Investigators said he led raids that left hundreds dead and countless homes destroyed. According to one witness, Ali Kushayb once inspected a line of naked women just before they were raped by his men. There were critical grumblings that...
...August. But Hall and many others suspect that Ali Kushayb's trial - if it ever happens - is just the Sudanese government's latest gambit in what has become a full-blown campaign to derail the International Criminal Court's investigation into its own complicity in charges of genocide in Darfur...
...Amnesty International is asking for immediately is that Sudan permit a trial observer to attend the proceedings and for a copy of the charges and any other court documents related to the case." On Tuesday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch derided Sudan's domestic investigations into the Darfur conflict as nothing more than "window dressing." The group's Africa director, Georgette Gagnon, said that Sudan was clearly trying to block the ICC's work. "No one should be fooled by these moves," she said in a statement released on the group's web site...
...government of President Omar al-Bashir has been criticized for its methods and policies since the very start of the Darfur conflict, which has killed some 300,000 and displaced 2.5 million in five years. Along with domestic trials, which have achieved little, Bashir announced on Thursday a "people's initiative" to bring peace to Darfur, even though none of the rebel groups agreed to take part...
...core of Sudan's strategy is simple. The ICC may only take on cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity if the country where the crimes allegedly occurred doesn't pursue the cases itself. Since the ICC got the Darfur docket in 2005, Sudan has repeatedly assured the outside world - not very persuasively, experts say - that it is trying Darfur atrocities cases itself. The ICC itself remains unconvinced that Ali Kushayb's arrest, or Sudan's prosecution of low-level officials in Darfur, is sincere. "No cases involving serious violations of international humanitarian law have been tried and therefore...