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 خطاب هيئة الرقابة البريطانية (هيئة مدنية مستقلة) حول مذكرة التوقيف بحق الرئيس البشير
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LETTER: 6 March 2009 - published in The Guardian
Questions over arrest warrant for Bashir
Dear Sir,
Sudan, like many other countries, experienced British colonial rule. Now, it is being subjected to another form of external interference in its internal affairs (Facing court over Darfur, 5 March). The international criminal court in issuing an arrest warrant for President Bashir for alleged crimes committed inside the borders of Sudan, a country that - like India, Russia, America, China, and many others - refuses to submit to its jurisdiction, is asserting legal supremacy over this supposedly sovereign nation. But what is the ICC's moral and political right to claim that Sudan, and the entire world potentially, is under its jurisdiction?
It is revealing that the ICC does not list among its elastically drafted list of offences the supreme international crime of waging aggressive war. This has led many to believe that this is because the ICC has no intention of indicting western political leaders and military personnel. As our late foreign secretary Robin Cook commented in response to demands that Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and George Bush be investigated in relation to Iraq and the former Yugoslavia: "The ICC was not created to bring to book prime ministers of the United Kingdom and presidents of the United States." Indeed so.
Marc Glendening
Campaign director, ICCwatch
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