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Sudanese Government Minister Ahmad Mohammed Harun is not your typical minister of humanitarian affairs. Charged with 42 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Harun has been at large since May 2007 when the ICC accused him of orchestrating militia attacks on entire villages in Darfur...
...ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said, “Justice in Darfur must be on the agenda, at the top of the agenda. There can be no political solution, no security solution, no humanitarian solution as long as alleged war criminals remain free in the Sudan.” But when Moreno-Ocampo advised that any peace talks needed to broach the subject of accountability, he was met with silence from the international community...
...accused rebels, of course, are all for mato oput. LRA leader Joseph Kony was indicted, along with three other commanders, by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kony and his co-defendants say that they want the government to scrap the multiple-count indictment. If not, the rebels warn that they will not sign a peace agreement that is being hammered out in Juba, in southern Sudan, between the Ugandan government...
...very men accused by the U.S. of waging genocide against Darfurians, it may also be wishful thinking to imagine a united front of fractious rebel groups and Janjaweed defectors. Still, some rebel commanders believe the situation has changed dramatically as a result of actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Although international pressure on Khartoum has been slow in coming, with U.N. Security Council action stonewalled by China, and Sudan refusing entry to U.N. peacekeeping forces, the ICC has targeted specific leaders for prosecution. Last month, its chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges to issue summonses...
...After the ICC ruling, everything changed," says Zeber Muktar Salim, a spokesman for one of the several S.L.A. factions. The J.E.M.'s head of logistics, Nasiruddin Ahmed Taendy, added: "Khartoum hired the Janjaweed to kill their brother Darfurians. Now the Janjaweed have found out they were deceived - and they suspect the government will sell them out to the I.C.C. We are expecting the numbers of defectors to increase...