ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo briefed the Security Council yesterday and urged them to prepare for the possibility of the court issuing an arrest warrant for President al-Bashir in January or February. Moreno-Ocampo described the current situation on the ground and said that “genocide continues” in Darfur. Check out this Agence France-Presse story on the briefing. New York Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar also quoted in this story a Darfuri Leaders Network letter delivered to the council in advance of the briefing. The letter was a response to the Sudanese government’s attempt to win support for a suspension of the ICC’s case against Bashir.
[T]he Darfuri Leaders Network, a coalition of academics and others in exile in the United States, said the government was just making “empty gestures” while the threat of the indictment loomed. The group said in a statement that the indictment presented the best chance for accountability for crimes in Darfur.
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Anshul says:
Nick Kristof seems VERY certain that Mr. Bashir will be indicted in the next couple of months. (http://ocfordarfur.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/omar-al-bashir-will-be-indicted/)
Do you know anyone who can confirm his confidence?
truthserum says:
ONLY LOGICAL SOLUTION TO DAFUR SUFFERING:
I have been saddend for years at the suffering in Dafur and frustrated that no one has found a solution to end it.
I have what I believe is the only LOGICAL and workable solution. It is not a very PC solution. It does respond to the many “human natures” that compound this problem and confound a solution.
I hope you will read this entire blog and not dismiss my solution at first glance.
THE SOLUTION?
Mercenaries. Yes, soldiers of fortune. How upsetting that sounds to you, please read on.
Why should mothers and fathers in France, England, USA or anywhere else support the idea of their sons and daughters being at risk of being maimed or killed in Dafur or any place that does not threaten their national interests? It’s a non-starter for them. They are appalled at the tragedy in Dafur, but it’s not worth harm to their loved ones.
This is at the heart of the UN’s inability to solve the problem militarily. And militarily it will be solved. Whether the aggressors continue their slaughter until their victims are subdued (dead, maimaed), or they are thrown back by a superior force.
The aggressors will not be won over by diplomacy. They do not seek compromise, solutions. What we are witnessing is pure evil. Only military force will stop the carnage. Dedicated soldiers who will seek out and destroy the aggressors.
Yes, that is the only way. The aggressors can not be talked to. They have to be eliminated, sorry killed. In large numbers. Sorry, but to deny the truth in this fact is to stick your head in the sand and watch the butchery for the indefinite period. Until the innocents are eliminated, sorry killed.
OK it’s a bleak situation. WHY ARE MERCENARIES THE ANSWER?
1. It’s unreasonable to ask Mrs. Smith in England to sacrifice her son in the UN or in the British army to persue and eliminate the aggressors or even more absurd to act as human barriers between the aggressor and the slaughtered. She doesn’t have a dog in this fight. It’s not worth her child getting even injured. If you don’t get this point, don’t bother to read on.
2. Mercenaries are the best source to find EXPERIENCED, dedicated (gotta offer bonuses for success – gross but human nature)soldiers to eliminate the agressors. Again, if you think the slaughter will end by negotations, don’t bother to read on.
3. It can be done! It would take only a few thousand well armed, experienced and MOTIVATED (bonuses) soldier to quickly end the problem.
Unfortunately, there would also quickly be a whole lot of dead aggressors. Which is why the only solution that is logical and would work will never gain traction. Until caring people realize diplomacy, compromise, talks will never work with monsters like the aggressors in Dafur the slaughter will continue.
Good people are loathe to judge. Reluctant to decide monsters will not change and must be destroyed. This is why Dafur will suffer until the innocents are destroyed.
Until good people have the courage to see evil, and name it as evil and seek it’s elimination (sorry, kill it) evil will hack off limbs, rape and kill with abandon and sick joy.
Mercenaries are the answer.