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The Hague, 2 June 2008
ICC-OTP-20080602-MA14-ENG
Traduction:
Arabic
On June 5, International Criminal Court
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will be in New York to deliver his
report to the United Nations Security Council on the situation
in Darfur. The Prosecutor will update the Council on the
progress of his second and third cases in Darfur, and explore
with the Council possible reactions to the Sudan’s non
cooperation with the Court, and non compliance with UN Security
Council Resolution 1593.
The Government of Sudan has taken no steps to
arrest Ahmad Harun, former Minister of State for Interior of the
Sudan, and Ali Kushayb, a Militia Janjaweed leader, both
indicted by the ICC on 27 April 2007 for crimes against humanity
and war crimes.
‘The people of Darfur are attacked in their
villages and in the camps. They are attacked now. Community
leaders are arrested, women are raped, schools are bombed. Those
are not military actions. Those are criminal acts.” said
Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo.
Today, Ahmed Harun is still a Minister of the
Government of the Sudan, in charge of humanitarian affairs.
Impunity for Harun has concrete consequences on the
international community’s efforts to deliver humanitarian
assistance and promote security in Darfur. He attacks the people
he has the responsibility to protect. He hampers the delivery of
relief to the victims. He is also involved in obstructing
deployment of the peacekeepers. Impunity, for the Darfuris, is
not an abstraction. It means death and destruction.
The Security Council referred the situation in
Darfur to the Prosecutor in March 2005, recognizing that justice
must be a component of any solution for Darfur. The UN Security
Council is in Khartoum this week on the 4th of June. “This is a
fantastic opportunity to ensure a clear, strong and unified
message to the Sudanese authorities that the crimes must be
stopped and Ahmed Harun arrested” Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo
said.
“Darfur is a test for the international
community. We cannot look away. Council members can explain in
Khartoum that those who protect alleged criminals and commit
crimes will not escape the law” added the Prosecutor.
The International Criminal Court is an
independent, permanent court that investigates and prosecutes
persons accused of the most serious crimes of international
concern, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
if national authorities with jurisdiction are unwilling or
unable to do so genuinely. The Office of the Prosecutor is
currently investigating in four situations: The Democratic
Republic of Congo, Northern Uganda, the Darfur region of Sudan,
and the Central African Republic, all still engulfed in various
degrees of conflict with victims in urgent need of protection.
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