Posted on 12/03/2008 8:28:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Sudan's government is still supporting genocide in Darfur, including through rape and holding up humanitarian aid, the International Criminal Court prosecutor said Wednesday.
"Genocide continues," Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the UN Security Council, accusing Sudan of refusing to cooperate with the court.
"Rapes in and around the (refugee) camps continue. Humanitarian assistance is still hindered. More than 5,000 displaced persons die each month," he said.
Moreno-Ocampo urged the 15 Security Council member nations to be prepared for the possibility of an ICC-issued warrant for the arrest of Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir.
In July Moreno-Ocampo asked the ICC for an arrest warrant for Beshir on 10 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
A panel of judges is reviewing the evidence to determine whether there are reasonable grounds to try Beshir. It would be the court's first indictment of a sitting head of state.
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and the wind whispered..
Rrrwaaaandaaaaa
Don’t make us send UNiMoP to clean up.
A Sudanese boy holds onto the barb wire fence surrounding a water point in the Abu Shouq internally displaced people's (IDP) camp in the outskirts of el-Fasher, North Darfur, in 2007. The government of Sudan is still supporting genocide in Darfur, including through rape and holding up humanitarian aid, International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday. (AFP/AMIS/File/Stuart Price)
RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2008 Children attend an outdoor class at Gassire, a camp for displaced Chadians who have fled fighting around the eastern town of Gos Beida near the Sudanese border, June 7, 2008. Reflecting the violence in Darfur that has swept in both directions across the Chad-Sudan border, there are 250,000 Sudanese refugees scattered in a dozen camps in eastern Chad and 180,000 internally displaced Chadians, U.N. officials say. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (CHAD)
Yasir Arman, a senior member of the Sudan People's LIberation Movement (SPLM), dances during a party celebrating Barack Obama's election as U.S. president in Khartoum November 29, 2008. SPLM officials say Obama's family originally came from Sudan, not Kenya. REUTERS/Andrew Heavens (SUDAN)
Punishing the successful by stealing their money and sending it to the local tribal rulers will surely solve this dilemma.
those obamas sure get around, don’t they?
ah dammit... Obama is the President-Elect... these things are not supposed to happen anymore. Obama is the Ones we’ve been waiting for.
Irritates me they keep putting for a province of The Sudan as if its a ‘country’.
Genocide in THE SUDAN is the accurate term, folks.
And why does the MSM continue to say ‘Darfur’?
Because if they say The Sudan, they might have to explain to average Americans The Sudan is a Islamofacist regime that celebrates every American death, as all fundementalist terror organizations do routinely.
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