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...Criminal Court, issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, citing crimes against humanity and war crimes. As pundits and scholars alike have warned, al-Bashir’s retaliation was brutal. He immediately shut down 13 relief agencies, giving no explanation other than allegations that the ICC and these NGOs were conspiring against...
...Ocampo’s ICC indictment was a bad idea from the start. In a nation ravaged by government-sponsored war, torture, rape, and murder, ensuring that humanitarian NGOs remain active is crucially important for the lives of ordinary Darfuris. The now-defunct NGOs contributed 80 percent of the workers to the UN World Food Programme’s efforts in Darfur and maintained hygienic standards in packed refugee camps. However effective or ineffective these organizations may be, 2.75 million refugees depended on their aid, along with millions more...
...Darfuris would not be destroyed and would have hope. It is not that easy. Even if the situation had improved, Ocampo’s individualistic view of the indictment process would still be untenable. It overestimates the impact of one body—whether it is Ocampo or the ICC on al-Bashir or al-Bashir on Darfur. The recent backlash does not invalidate international law as a force of justice. It invalidates international law as a blunt instrument, used by prosecutors like Ocampo...
...ICC is undermined by several enduring controversies. Supporters say lasting peace demands justice. They point to the arrest and conviction of Sierra Leone's warlords in a joint UN-Sierra Leonean process, which has not restarted that nation's conflict. Opponents, for their part, cite the 2005 indictment of Ugandan militia leader Joseph Kony, which led him to spurn talks...
There are also questions over how all-encompassing the ICC's role really is. It was set up in 2002 after just 66 countries out of 195 ratified its founding statute - and Russia, China and the U.S. have still not done so. Its ad hoc predecessors may have prosecuted leaders from around the globe, but so far the ICC has only indicted Africans: in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Uganda. "That," says African Union chairman, Jean Ping, "is a problem...