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...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 the peacekeepers, and today there are only...
...notion of "regime change" was still in fashion, Luis Moreno-Ocampo recalls that Western countries pressed him to charge President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan with genocide in the country's Darfur region. Three years later, on July 14, Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), did just that. But by then diplomats were up in arms, as it sank in that Moreno-Ocampo actually meant to go through with it. In private meetings and public statements, they told Moreno-Ocampo that he would be responsible for a bloodbath. "My answer was: Today [the people...
...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 of the court's indictment, slamming the door...
...Netherlands Justice vs. Peace in Darfur On July 14 the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the nation's Darfur region, where up to 300,000 have died and more than 2.5 million have been displaced since 2003. The allegations mark the first time the six-year-old ICC has brought charges against a sitting head of state. Al-Bashir's government vowed to fight the charges, while critics say the ICC's efforts to bring justice to Darfur could backfire, leaving peacekeepers and aid workers...
...choice is between idealism and pragmatism. In Uganda, the ICC chose idealism and issued an arrest warrant for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, who then refused to sign a peace agreement until the warrant was lifted. In Zimbabwe, the court chose pragmatism, responding to queries on whether it plans to pursue President Robert Mugabe by saying it has no authority over the country as Zimbabwe never signed the Rome Statute, which established the ICC. This is disingenuous. Sudan hasn't signed the treaty either, a snag overcome when the U.N. Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC...