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...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...
...Moreno-Ocampo had diplomatic allies as well. Liechtenstein's ambassador to the U.N. gave the ICC a huge amount of public exposure by premiering the documentary Darfur Now at the U.N. headquarters the day before Kouchner's conference. The film tells six stories out of Darfur, and one of them is Moreno-Ocampo's. The presence of Angelina Jolie ensured a packed house and media attention...
Failing with the West, Moreno-Ocampo spent the next six months traveling the Arab world - Cairo, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan - to assure them of his impartiality and to bring them onto his side. Then in June, the ICC got a break...
Security Council briefings are usually gray-tongued, empty-seated affairs. But this time, the room was packed with ICC advocates. Bruno Stagno, the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, broke the ice: "The government of Sudan is toying with us, toying with human dignity, toying with the authority of this Council." Stagno said that Khartoum's promotion of Haroun and its refusal to arrest him is cynicism. He charged the Security Council with appeasing Khartoum, and he invoked the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda. "You could see people looking at their notes, thinking, Uh-oh, I can't read this...
...game had changed entirely. "Up to now, we were Sisyphus," says the ICC official, who asked not to be named. "We would go with our fantastic evidence, facts that say Haroun has committed crimes and is in a position to commit new crimes. They'd listen, go back and then forget." This time Costa Rica vowed to put forth a resolution, which would require 9 out of 15 Security Council votes. With the Olympics approaching and the international focus on its handling of Tibet, China did not want to be seen as accommodating the Sudanese. Nor did Libya or Russia...