Word: khartoum
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...leverage over Sudan and Burma is particularly limited. In 1997 Congress protested Khartoum's brutal tactics in southern Sudan by barring select Sudanese companies from involvement in the U.S. financial system. The same year, Congress punished the Burmese junta's "severe repression" by prohibiting U.S. investments in Burma. These measures have left the U.S. with few remaining business or diplomatic ties to terminate...
Although previous attempts to forge a peace deal have failed to stop the klling, Western officials are hoping that the ruinous violence and the inability of either side to prevail by force of arms will have left the combatants exhausted enough to agree to a compromise. Khartoum has also come under pressure from China, Sudan's major international trade partner, to bring peace to Darfur - Beijing is mindful that activists have begun linking the killing in Darfur with the Beijing Olympics in the hope that bad publicity will prompt the Chinese to turn the screws on Sudan...
...rebels in Haskanita has imperiled the peace talks scheduled for October in Libya. Although a hybrid United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is slated to relieve the A.U. peacekeepers by the end of the year, its success is contingent upon Sudan’s cooperation. Supposedly, Khartoum has committed to the hybrid force, but it has also granted free reign to likely war criminals, making future attacks a certainty...
...Sudanese government is legally obligated to arrest the accused while they remain on Sudanese soil, and the Security Council can employ coercive measures in the event of Sudan’s noncompliance. But so long as Khartoum continues to ignore the ICC, the international community must pressure Sudan to execute the arrest warrants...
Reeves and his colleagues in the groups seeking action on Darfur say Sudan has reneged on similar promises before and already shows signs of doing so again. So they intend to continue goading Beijing to keep pushing Khartoum. "We say to the Chinese, 'We know you think this is your moment to step onto the world stage, but we are going to rain on your parade,'" Reeves says. "They know more pressure is coming and are afraid." In the case of Darfur, says Tsinghua's Yan, "yes, the pressure worked." But he is quick to add that just because Western...