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UN Council Refers Darfur Crimes to Hague Tribunal
Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:56:04 PM ET
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted on Thursday to refer war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court after Washington, which opposes the tribunal, abstained rather than veto the resolution.
The vote was 11-0 with four abstentions. The resolution marked the first time the Security Council referred a case to the court in The Hague, set up to try perpetrators of genocide, war crimes and mass human rights abuses.
The Bush administration, which argues that Americans could be targets of politically motivated prosecutions, had threatened to veto the measure.
But council members made last-minute concessions in the text after days of bargaining, including a provision that would bar the ICC or courts from any other country from prosecuting a U.S. citizen assisting in United Nations operations in Sudan.
France, which had drafted an earlier version of the measure, had misgivings about that language, so Britain took over sponsorship of the resolution.
The United States was in the difficult position of either swallowing its fierce opposition to the ICC or vetoing a resolution that would try people for the pillage, slaughter and rape in Darfur that Washington has itself called genocide.
The court began functioning about a year ago as a long-delayed successor to the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg after World War Two. Some 98 countries have ratified the treaty creating the court but the Bush administration rescinded the U.S. signature as a sign of its opposition.
The Security Council can refer a case to the ICC if the country where the crimes took place is unwilling or unable to bring those responsible to justice.
Over the last two years, at least 180,000 people have died from fighting, hunger and disease in Sudan's Darfur region. More than 2 million people, mainly African villagers, have been forced out of their homes by Arab militia.
The 11 votes in favor of the resolution came from France, Britain, Greece, Denmark, Tanzania, Benin, Argentina and Romania, which have ratified the court's treaty, as well as Russia, Japan and Philippines.
The four abstentions came from the United States, China, Algeria and Brazil, which is a strong supporter of the court but could not get instructions on the new text in time.
(Irwin Arieff contributed to this report)
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