محامي الأدعاء بالمحكمة الدولية بلاهاي يعلن : سنتغلب علي كل العراقيل التي وضعتها حكومة السودان

Quote: News Article by DPA posted on September 27, 2005 at 12:29:06: EST (-5 GMT) International Criminal Court investigation hobbled in Sudan Prague (dpa) - An attorney with the International Criminal Court vowed Tuesday that The Hague-based agency will overcome Sudan government roadblocks to an investigation of alleged crimes against humanity in the Darfur region. Sudan has "made it clear" it will not cooperate with the probe and "is a state that doesn't want to hear about the court", ICC senior appeals counsel Fabricio Guariglia said at the International Bar Association conference in Prague. "But it can be done," Guariglia said. "It's only a matter of finding out how." Sudan is pursuing its own court investigation of the ongoing Darfur crisis, which has killed tens of thousands and created an estimated 2 million refugees. The Sudanese government has rejected a sic-month-old United Nations mandate for the three-year-old ICC - the world's only permanent international criminal court - to handle the case. A U.N. representative in Sudan this week said the crisis could be getting worse. Millions of civilians are caught in a conflict between Arab militias allegedly backed the government and black rebels from Sudan's south. Guariglia said the court investigation in Sudan, which began in June, is the only current ICC case in which a government has refused to cooperate. Separate probes of alleged crimes against humanity in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been welcomed by those governments, he said, although investigators face enormous challenges in each country including personal safety and witness protection in "highly volatile" regions. In Congo, Guariglia said he expects arrest warrants connected to massacres to be issued "pretty soon". In Uganda, he said, investigators are focusing on "massive" atrocities by the Lord's Resistance Army. The prosecutor for the 3-year-old ICC is also conducting an analysis to determine whether an investigation should be launched in Central African Republic. But in Sudan the ICC faces "completely different challenges", Guariglia said. "This will be a different game."