نقابة المحامين السودانيين تطالب باقالة رئيسة الجنائية والمدعى العام

Quote: Prof. Michelo Hansungule, PhD Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)1. Sudan is in the middle of an unprecedented international crisis over the Darfur region. This has been compounded by the international community’s interest in this case. There is urgent need to find practical solution to Sudan in particular Darfur. It is true Darfur has been at war with itself of course with the assistance of others who have interests there and in Sudan as a whole. But the conflict in Darfur has been taken advantage of by those that seek to profit from it. None of the victims of the Darfur conflict have benefitted from it more than outsiders. It is the first time that the international community especially the West developed so much interest in an African problem. 2. Before Darfur, Africa has had Rwanda genocide and similar international crimes in Sierra Leone without anyone in the West being bothered. Rwanda, in particular, is the case where the West would have made a name as a real friend of the weak African had it quickly reacted by doing the right thing. Instead of removing their troops already in the country leaving the Tutsis victims exposed to marauding machete-wielding Hutus, the West should have appealed to its sense of humanity and left the troops their. Had this happened, the carnage that led to the million deaths would have been prevented. 3. Perhaps due to the embarrassment the West faced on Rwanda where it watched unconcerned or put up a ‘business as usual’ attitude while Tutsi children were being butchered right on the feet of so-called UN ‘peace-keepers’ who had strict instruction not interfere in ‘African tribal war’, Darfur has become the folder for international politics. While it has not been demonstrated beyond doubt that the war in Darfur poses direct threat to international peace and security enshrined in the United Nations Charter, Western countries have not wasted time labeling the Darfur conflict as more than international in nature. Yet, unless a conflict is international, there is no jurisdiction for other states to engage in it as a matter of right. 4. Former South African President Thabo Mbeki and other former ######### of state of Burundi and Nigeria were tasked by the African Union to scrutinize the Darfur conflict and advise the regional body whether it met the minimum threshold of grave breach of international law in particular for Africa Article 4 (h) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union. Mbeki, who came out empty-handed, was not only mandated to render this advice to the captains of the AU but to go an extra mile and suggest the way forward especially for the AU on Darfur. To this day, the Mbeki Report remains the most authoritative account ever produced on up