泥濘中的老虎 - 2008-7-14 23:30:00
By Emma Thomasson
Reuters
Monday, July 14, 2008; 10:37 AM
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor charged Sudan's president on Monday with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur, killing 35,000 people and persecuting 2.5 million refugees.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked the court for an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the most senior figure pursued by the court since it was set up in 2002.
Bashir is also the first sitting head of state charged by an international court since Liberia's Charles Taylor and Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic.
Moreno-Ocampo said Sudan's armed forces and the militia they support killed up to 35,000 people while 2.5 million others were subject to a campaign of "rape, hunger and fear" in refugee camps, where he said genocide continued "under our eyes."
"The decision to start the genocide was taken by Bashir personally," he told a news conference. "Bashir is executing this genocide without gas chambers, without bullets, without machetes. It is a genocide by attrition."
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Khartoum on Sunday to protest against the ICC, while aid organizations have tightened security in Sudan in recent days, fearing an upsurge in violence from an enraged Bashir and emboldened rebels in Darfur.
A few dozen people protested outside the British embassy and the U.N. headquarters in Khartoum after the ICC news.
Khartoum, which is not a party to the court and has denied genocide in Darfur, said it would ignore the announcement. But it pledged to continue peace efforts and to protect U.N. staff in Darfur, home to the world's largest humanitarian operation.
EMERGENCY MEETING
Arab foreign ministers said they would hold an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss the case against Bashir, a former army general who came to power in a coup in 1989.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke to Bashir on Saturday and stressed the independence of the ICC but also the need to manage the situation on the ground, expressing concern about any impact on the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.
Moreno-Ocampo said it usually took two to three months for ICC judges to rule on an application for an arrest warrant, but said it could take longer as this case is so complicated. He said he would also ask the court to freeze Bashir's assets.
泥濘中的老虎 - 2008-7-14 23:30:00
7月13日，苏丹总统奥马尔-哈桑-阿尔-巴希尔(OmarHasan al-Beshir)召开紧急内阁会议，讨论如何应对国际刑事法庭针对他的战争罪指控。此前，国际刑事法庭(International Criminal Court，ICC)的检察官路易斯-莫雷诺-坎波(LuisMoreno-Ocampo)指控巴希尔在达尔富尔地区犯下战争罪和种族灭绝罪，并于7月 11日宣布将寻求逮捕巴希尔。(全文点击此处)
另，据《华盛顿邮报》消息，巴希尔总统将寻求中国、俄罗斯及非洲国家在联合国阻击任何逮捕令。这对苏丹最大的武器供应商及主要石油投资商中国来说，在奥运会过几天就要开幕之时，是颇为难堪之事。（Sudan looks set to seek Chinese, Russian and African support at the United Nations to help block any warrant.
The new Darfur case could embarrass China -- Khartoum's biggest arms supplier and a major investor in its oil industry -- just weeks before the start of the Beijing Olympics. 全文点击此处）
ICC曾经审判过另一位“中国人民的老朋友”米洛舍维奇。