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 Re: السودان : 10 من قائمة المتهمين في انتهاكات دارفورالدولية مسؤولين كبار في الحكومة السودان (Re: Kamel mohamad)
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Sudan rejects proposals to try Darfur war criminals abroad
UN report recommends 51 suspects stand trial at the International Criminal Court
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Monday, February 07, 2005
KHARTOUM: The Sudanese government will not send Sudanese citizens or officials suspected of Darfur war crimes charges to any international court, the first vice president said Saturday.
Earlier this week, a UN commission report to the world body recommended 51 Sudanese people - including high-ranking government officials, rebels and Arab militiamen known as the Janjaweed - stand trial at the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges related to the 2-year Darfur conflict.
The panel's report also said government-backed militias were still involved in rape, mass killings and wanton destruction in Darfur.
Sudan's first vice president, Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, told a rally in the North
Darfur capital of Fasher that anyone found to have committed human rights-related crimes will be dealt with by Sudanese authorities.
"What is being reported about of a trial of some individuals or officials in courts outside the Sudan is something we will not accept as a government," Sudan's state-run news agency quoted Taha as saying.
Italian law professor Antonio Cassese, the chair of the panel that produced the Darfur report, said a sealed envelope containing 51 names of senior officials, security forces and other citizens accused of serious war crimes has been sent to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
The identities of about 40 more individuals accused of similar abuses, but with less evidence gathered against them, have been sent to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights for possible further investigations, Cassese said.
None of the names have been made public to ensure due process is carried out and to protect witnesses.
Cassese's panel recommended the UN Security Council immediately refer the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, something the U.S. government has objected to and could use its veto to block.
The court, in The Hague, Netherlands, is supposed to handle cases involving genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity when the countries involved cannot work out a solution on their own. Yet the administration says the court could be used for frivolous or politically motivated prosecutions of American troops.
Washington is lobbying Security Council members for a new tribunal to prosecute alleged crimes from Darfur which would operate with the African Union.
Cassese, a human rights expert who was president of the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia from 1993-1997, said the Bush administration should let the case be dealt with by the International Criminal Court.
"The United States ... has been the most outspoken state on Darfur and claimed genocide had taken place, which we didn't agree with," Cassese said.
"In a way this would not be consistent with opposing the referral (of the case) by the Security Council to the International Criminal Court" to ensure people accused of human rights abuses face trial, he said.
Annan has said the alleged perpetrators of human rights abuses should be brought to justice. His call came as the Security Council, and by extension the United Nations, has been dogged by allegations that they are doing too little to stop the conflict.
The Darfur conflict began when the rebels took up arms against what they saw as years of state neglect and discrimination against Sudanese of African origin. The government is accused of responding with a counterinsurgency campaign in which the Janjaweed, an Arab militia, committed wide-scale abuses against the African population.
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