Tuesday - June 14, 2005
Justice?
The good news: there is going to be a war crimes trial over the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The bad news: the trial is being held by the Islamic government of Sudan .... which has been behind the mass killings of black Africans.
The Sudanese government is doing this to head off the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and put on a pretense of seeking justice for the millions of black Africans murdered by Sudanese Muslims. This is a travesty and a total farce ....
Sudan’s War Crimes Court To Open
(BBC) 14-June-2005 - A special war crimes court is due to open, with charges against some 160 Sudanese from the Darfur region, the justice minister has said.
Lobby group Amnesty International has said the court “lacks credibility”.
Justice Minister Ali Mohammed Yassin said the court would be an alternative to the world court which has started to investigate alleged war crimes.
More than two million people have been forced from their homes in the conflict in which at least 180,000 have died.
Mr Yassin did not give any details about the suspects’ identity, beyond saying they were from Darfur.
The court is due to sit in Nyala and al-Fashir, capitals of south and north Darfur.
The BBC’s Alfred Taban in Sudan says that he does not expect the court to charge the 51 alleged ringleaders of the atrocities but instead to concentrate on the “small-fry”.
“The court will be an alternative to the International Criminal Court (ICC),” Mr Yassin said.
The ICC last week officially began its investigations of 51 war crimes suspects, whose names were handed over in a sealed document by a United Nations panel of investigators.
“We fear that the establishment of the special court may just be a tactic by the Sudanese government to avoid prosecution” by the ICC, said Kolawole Olaniyan, the director of Amnesty International’s Africa programme.
“On the one hand, the Sudanese government is claiming that it is able to punish the crimes it is accused of condoning for the last two years,” he said in a statement.
“On the other hand, it continues to crack down on those who expose or criticise such human rights violations.”
Somebody pass me a screwdriver and pair of pliers. My bullshit detector just exploded.
Posted by The Skipper
on 06/14/2005 at 08:11 AM
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