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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
12:46 MECCA TIME, 9:46 GMT
Court urges Sudan war crimes arrest
Ban Ki-moon said he was "committed to justice and
peace" in Darfur [AFP]
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has
urged world leaders to
"break their silence" and press the Sudanese government to arrest one
of its ministers for
alleged war crimes.
The comments by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor, came ahead of
a high-level UN
meeting on Darfur on Friday.
Moren-Ocampo has called for the arrest of Ahmed Harun, Sudan's
humanitarian affairs
minister, who faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
He said he was concerned that silence by world leaders "has been
understood in Khartoum
as a weakening of international resolve".
"It is time to break the silence," he said.
UN meeting
Moreno-Ocampo said Harun, who is suspected of involvement in the
murder, rape, torture
and persecution of civilians in Darfur, is now in charge of the
millions of people he forced out
of villages into camps.
"Ahmed Harun is not protecting the camps, he is controlling them. He
must be stopped. He
must be arrested. The international community must be consistent in
their support of the
law."
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The ICC wants Friday's UN meeting, chaired by Ban Ki-moon, the UN
secretary general, and
Alpha Oumar Konare, the African Union chairman, to be used to push the
Sudanese
government to arrest Harun.
But bringing to justice those most responsible for killing over
200,000 people and uprooting
more than 2.5 million during the four and a half-year conflict is not
on the agenda for the
meeting.
Instead, ministers from 26 countries have been invited to discuss
international support for
new negotiations with Khartoum, the deployment of a 26,000-strong
AU-UN force in Darfur
and the expansion of humanitarian assistance.
"World leaders have to understand that if the justice component
process is ignored, crimes
will continue and affect the humanitarian and security operations in
Darfur," Moreno-Ocampo
said.
Postponing Harun's arrest, he said, would mean "there will be no
solution in Darfur" but
Moreno-Ocampo also expressed hope that the UN secretary-general's
talks with Omar al-
Bashir, the Sudanese president, earlier this month might "bear fruit".
'Justice and peace'
At a news conference on Tuesday Ban refused to disclose the details of
his discussions with
al-Bashir, but said "you should know that I am fully committed to
justice and peace".
Asked how al-Bashir responded when asked to hand over Harun and Ali
Kushayb, a Janjawid
leader, for trial by the ICC, Ban said he raised the issue "more than
once in a private
conversation" and would continue to raise it.
But Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad, Sudan's UN ambassador, said
al-Bashir told
Ban that "in no way we are going to surrender any of our citizens to
be prosecuted abroad".
Mohamed accused Moreno-Ocampo of politicising his office and coming to
New York "to
destroy the peace process" instead of helping to ensure the success of
the political
negotiations in Libya scheduled for October 27.
Before those talks, the UN and its allies must persuade Darfur's
fragmented groups of fighter
to sit down with the Sudanese government, a goal that has proved
elusive in the past.
Abdel Wahid Nur, one of the most influential rebel leaders, has
already said he will not
participate.
The Darfur conflict began in 2003 when ethnic African rebels took up
arms against the Arab-
dominated central government, accusing it of discrimination.
Sudan is accused of retaliating by unleashing Arab fighters known as
Janjawid responsible
for much of the violence, an accusation the government denies.
Source: Agencies
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