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International-UN-NGOs
Russia proposes 6-month cross-border aid renewal for Syria
2022-07-08
[Rudaw] As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only for six months - not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
 and more than 30 nongovernmental groups want.

Russia proposed amendments to a draft resolution by Ireland and Norway reducing their year-long time frame for deliveries. Council diplomats said consultations were continuing late Wednesday to see if a compromise could be reached.

The Security Council scheduled a vote for Thursday morning. If no compromise appeared, the draft resolution by Ireland and Norway to extend cross-border deliveries for 12 months would be voted on first. If it failed to get nine votes, or was vetoed by Russia, the Russian resolution with a six-month extension would then be put to a vote.

In early July 2020, China and Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have maintained two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Idlib. Days later, the council authorized the delivery of aid through just one of those crossings, Bab al-Hawa. That one-year mandate was extended for a year on July 9, 2021, and expires this Sunday.

The Russian proposal called for increased efforts to ensure "full, safe and unhindered" deliveries of humanitarian assistance across conflict lines within Syria, according to the Russian draft obtained Wednesday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

It also would authorize the establishment of "a special working group" comprising concerned council members, major donors, interested regional parties and representatives of international humanitarian agencies "in order to regularly review and follow-up on the implementation of this resolution."

Neither of those proposals were in the Ireland-Norway draft resolution.

Northwest Idlib is the last rebel-held bastion in Syria and al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
 is the strongest holy warrior group in the region. The U.N. said last week that the first 10 years of the Syrian conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians -- the highest official estimate of civilian casualties.

In a letter to Security Council ambassadors obtained Wednesday by the AP, former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo warned that by approving cross-border deliveries to northwest Syria, council members "could find themselves materially supporting a U.N.-designated terrorist organization."

He said northwest Syria "is controlled by Al-Nusra, a U.N. designated terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaeda and currently called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham."

Any support to a "terrorist organization, including humanitarian assistance," is prohibited by previous U.N. Security Council resolutions, Ocampo said.

To avoid a "flagrant violation" of its resolutions, he said the Security Council should have the operation monitoring cross-border deliveries confirm that the al Qaeda-linked groups "are not involved in implementing humanitarian aid" or remove Al-Nusra-Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from the "terrorist" list.
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International-UN-NGOs
Former ICC chief prosecutor pushes for Yazidi genocide case
2015-09-03
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The former chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
 (ICC) is pushing for a case to be opened into the "ongoing genocide" against Iraq's Yazidi community at the hands of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) turbans.

Luis Moreno Ocampo said he was approached in the United States recently by Yazidi activists who are seeking justice for the systematic slaughter, rape and enslavement of thousands of members of the religious minority in northern Iraq.

"It's a very clear case. It's an ongoing genocide because there are still people in captivity," Ocampo told Rooters in an interview in Erbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, late on Wednesday.

"It's up to us to provide information that allows the ICC to understand, yes, we have jurisdiction in this case in this way," said Ocampo, who launched many of the ICC's highest-profile cases, including against Saif al-Islam, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy
...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them...
, and is now a professor at Harvard University. "It's difficult to predict who will be prosecuted because this is the beginning."
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Africa North
Gaddafi forces shell Misrata
2011-05-05
[Iran Press TV] Forces loyal to Libyan Leader Muammar Qadaffy have killed at least five people and maimed several others in a fresh shelling of the port city of Misratah.

Revolutionary forces say the bombing on the besieged city has caused many casualties, including people of other nationalities that were awaiting evacuation. They add that the shelling is continuing on the city's residential as well as industrial areas.

"There has been a lot of shelling in Misrata today," said Jalal al-Gallal, an opposition front man in eastern city of Benghazi.

"I am afraid the number could be far higher than we would like to hear," Gallal added.

He also noted that revolutionary forces were still trying to verify the total number of casualties for the past 72 hours.

Misratah has been under a siege by government forces for over two months now. Human rights groups say hundreds of people have been killed in the port city during the weeks-long regime siege.
You know, if the city isn't surrounded, the rebels could always evacuate the wimmins and kidlings...
Qadaffy's army also launched dozens of rockets at the town of Zintan.

His forces are pressing on with a campaign that has created a humanitarian crisis and forced thousands to flee the country.

The International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
 (ICC) says it has found evidence that Qadaffy's forces have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

ICC chief, Luis Moreno Ocampo, says the information at hand proves that the regime forces have committed capital crimes against the Libyan people. He accused pro-Qadaffy forces of systematically firing on civilians.

Tripoli has rejected the report as unverified.
Iran Press TV boilerplate spittle from this point on:
Libya has been the scene of fierce fighting between Pro-Qadaffy troops and anti-regime forces since mid February. The revolutionary forces want an end to Qadaffy's decades-long rule.

The US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
 have unleashed a punishing, UN mandated offensive against Qadaffy to pressure him to give up power.

But scores of civilians have been killed in both internal festivities and foreign air strikes.
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Africa Subsaharan
Ouattara urges Ecowas forces to move in and seize rival Gbagbo
2011-01-07
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Cote d'Ivoire's internationally recognised president called today for a bloodless raid by west African special forces to snatch defiant strongman Laurent Gbagbo and "take him elsewhere" amid fears of civil war.

Mr Alassane Ouattara's call came after regional bloc Ecowas said it was prepared to use military force as a last resort to oust Gbagbo who retains control of the army and continues to defy international calls to step down.

"If he persists, it's up to EcowaS to take the necessary measures and those measures can include legitimate force," Ouattara told journalists at the Abidjan hotel where he has for weeks been besieged by Gbagbo forces.

"Legitimate force doesn't mean a force against Ivorians," he said, with the crisis threatening to plunge the west African nation back into civil war.

"It's a force to remove Laurent Gbagbo and that's been done elsewhere, in Africa and in Latin America, there are non-violent special operations which allow simply to take the unwanted person and take him elsewhere."

"Laurent Gbagbo will leave before the end of January," Mr Ouattara said.

"I have a series of measures underway that will make him fall like a fruit, not a ripe one, but like a rotten fruit," he said.

The latest bid by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union to mediate an end to the crisis that has seen at least 200 people killed since the disputed November 28 election floundered on Tuesday.

West African military chiefs have set in motion plans to oust Gbagbo if negotiations fail, with another crisis mediation mission to be decided soon.

Mr Ouattara has accused Gbagbo of criminal masterminding a campaign of rape and murder against his supporters, while the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society mission in the country said Thursday that the corpse count from the crisis continues to rise.

ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has vowed to prosecute any political crimes carried out in the wake of the disputed poll.
UN rights experts said last week they feared reports of widespread post-election violence in the Ivory Coast amounted to crimes against humanity, but that it had been prevented from fully investigating alleged atrocities. Mr Ouattara is the internationally acknowledged victor of the November 28 presidential election which was supposed to end a decade of unrest which has split the country between north and south.

Cote d'Ivoire's Independent Electoral Commission as well as the United Nations declared Ouattara the winner of the November 28 run-off poll, while the Constitutional Council said that Gbagbo won.

Both men have been sworn in as president and Gbagbo claims there is an international plot to oust him after more than a decade in power.

Mr Gbagbo's refusal to bow to international pressure has sent over 22,000 Ivorians fleeing the country amid fears of the return of civil war.

Ouattara's hotel has been protected by around 800 UN peacekeepers as well as the ex-rebel New Forces allied with his camp since troops rubbed out several of his supporters as they marched on state television on December 16.

Mr Gbagbo has demanded the former rebels go back to their northern powerbase before he will lift the siege, which his foreign minister says is there to protect Gbagbo himself and foreign diplomatic missions in the area.

With so many UN troops tied up protecting Ouattara, peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said in New York that he would seek an extra 1,000 to 2,000 reinforcements for the UN peeace-keeping mission in coming days.

Gbagbo has turned down offers of exile and amnesty for him and his camp in different countries, insisting he is the rightful president of the cocoa-rich nation.
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Africa Horn
ICC charges Sudan president with genocide
2010-07-13
[Al Arabiya Latest] The International Criminal Court issued a second arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for the crime of genocide, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.

Four months ago an appeals panel at the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal ruled that judges made an "error in law" when they refused last year to indict al-Bashir on international law's gravest charge.

Prosecutors then filed their case again and on Monday judges issued an arrest warrant charging al-Bashir with three counts of genocide.

Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo accuses al-Bashir of keeping 2.5 million refugees from specific ethnic groups in Darfur in camps "under genocide conditions, like a gigantic Auschwitz."
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Africa Horn
ICC to extend time for Darfur rebels' appearance
2010-02-02
[Al Arabiya Latest] The prosecutor's office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) would ask the court to extend the deadline set for two Darfur rebel leaders to appear voluntarily at The Hague for questioning over their alleged role in a 2007 massacre, well-placed sources told Al Arabiya on Monday.

Secret negotiations between the ICC and the Darfur rebel leaders Abdallah Banda and Saleh Jerbo Jamus again failed to ensure the men's voluntary appearance at the court by a previously agreed Feb. 3, deadline.


Banda and Jamus were expected to go to Kenya and Chad respectively, over the past two days, and from there to The Hague to attend a one day procedural court session.

But the two men have not left Darfur and failed to present themselves voluntarily in The Hague as previously promised and agreed with mediators, well informed sources told Al Arabiya on condition of anonymity.

The two rebel leaders were accused by the ICC General Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo of responsibility for the massacre and displacement of more than 15,000 civilians.

Banda is the field commander for the forces of the United Resistance Front (URF), which is led by Bahr Idriss Abu Gharda. He is in charge of all ground operations against Sudanese Government Forces and the forces of the other rebel movement, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).

Banda has not left for The Hague primarily because of his occupation with military matters. But both Banda and Jamus are also subject to family pressures against their traveling to The Hague, despite guarantees they would be allowed to leave after one questioning session at the Court.

Independent sources denied early reports the United Nations would assist in the transportation of the two men to The Hague.

The ICC asked last year to use a UN helicopter to transfer to The Hague Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, the leader of Darfur's United Resistance Front, but the request was turned down

But ICC judges could decide on Feb. 3 to issue two arrest warrants for both Banda and Jamus for their failure to appear at the court on deadline, contrary to what they did with URF leader Abu Gharda.
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Africa Horn
ICC in secret talks with 2 Darfur rebel leaders
2010-01-31
[Al Arabiya Latest] The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been in off-on secret negotiations for months with two Darfuri rebels wanted for questioning in connection with the attack on an African Union peacekeeping mission base in Haskanita in Sep. 2007, well-placed U.N. sources told Al Arabiya Saturday on condition of anonymity.

The negotiations were aimed at facilitating the two rebels' voluntary appearance before the ICC judges in The Hague, according to the sources. The rebels were summoned under seal by the judges to appear before them and answer questions concerning their alleged responsibility for the Haskanita massacre that killed 12 African Union (AU) soldiers and more than a hundred civilians, and wounded hundreds.


Identities of the two rebels, accused along with Bahr Idriss Abu Gharda by the ICC General Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo of responsibility for the massacre and displacement of more than 15,000 civilians, has been kept secret by the ICC.

But Al Arabiya revealed Saturday for the first time the identities of the two rebel leaders as General Abdallah Banda and Commander Jerbo Jamus.
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Afghanistan
International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
2009-11-27
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague.
This would abjectly stupid and irresponsible.
The ICC's chief prosecutor, though, has no intention of waiting for Washington to submit to the court's authority. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he already has jurisdiction--at least with respect to Afghanistan.

Because Kabul in 2003 ratified the Rome Statute--the ICC's founding treaty--all soldiers on Afghan territory, even those from nontreaty countries, fall under the ICC's oversight, Mr. Ocampo told me. And the chief prosecutor says he is already conducting a "preliminary examination" into whether NATO troops, including American soldiers, fighting the Taliban may have to be put in the dock.
Any thoughts as to putting the Taliban in the dock? No?
"We have to check if crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide have been committed in Afghanistan," Mr. Ocampo told me. "There are serious allegations against the Taliban and al Qaeda and serious allegations about warlords, even against some who are connected with members of the government." Taking up his inquiry of Allied soldiers, he added, "there are different reports about problems with bombings and there are also allegations about torture."

It was clear who the targets of these particular inquiries are but the chief prosecutor shied away from spelling it out.

Asked repeatedly whether the examination of bombings and torture allegations refers to NATO and U.S. soldiers, Mr. Ocampo finally stated that "we are investigating whoever commits war crimes, especially including the group you mentioned."

The fact that he avoided a straightforward "I am looking into possible war crimes committed by American soldiers" showed that Mr. Ocampo is aware of the enormity of crossing this legal and political bridge. Appointed in 2003 for a nine-year period, the 57-year-old Argentinian has--so far--established a record of cautious jurisprudence.
Hence his sterling record on investigating war crimes in Kosovo, Bosnia, Sudan and Cambodia ...
Mr. Ocampo is famous in his home country for prosecuting military juntas as well as starring in a reality program where he adjudicated private disputes. And in his first six years at the ICC, he pursued real evildoers. He indicted Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony, militia leaders from the Congo and Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, responsible for the genocide in Darfur.
Remind me how many years Bashir is serving in prison?
Yet collecting information about possible war crimes by American soldiers smacks of just the sort of politicized prosecution critics of the ICC had always warned about.

Mr. Ocampo remained tight-lipped about the specifics of his preliminary examination. Asked whether waterboarding--a practice that simulates drowning without causing lasting physical harm--is a form of torture produced a telling "no comment." Yet if the Obama administration considers this practice torture, one has to wonder if the ICC's chief prosecutor would give it his stamp of approval.

There is also the issue of whether Predator strikes of unmanned drones targeting terrorist leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan--as carried out in the very first week of the Obama presidency--are part of the bombings he's looking into. Mr. Ocampo chuckled and answered evasively. "We have people around the world concerned about this," he said, and when pressed, added, "Whatever the gravest war crimes are that have been committed, we have to check."
He'll be evasive until he doesn't have to be, which is when Bambi agrees to his jurisdiction over American soldiers.
"Gravest" is the operative word here. The court was established to "end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community," as stated on the ICC's Web site. This would suggest that even if U.S. soldiers have committed war crimes by the prosecutor's definition, the ICC would have no reason to get involved as those transgressions would surely be insignificant compared to the butchery in places like Sudan or Congo.

Mr. Ocampo's own words, though, suggested that he disagrees. I asked him if he was going to prosecute the worst crimes in his jurisdiction or the worst crimes in a particular case, such as Afghanistan, irrespective of how they compare to crimes around the world. He paused before answering.

"Normally," he said (another pause) "we select situations which are grave, for instance when I choose. . . ." Mr. Ocampo didn't finish the sentence, sighed and began afresh: "Both [scenarios] are right. Normally, we open investigations in the worst situation in the world and in some cases [countries] we investigate the worst situation."

This is an expansive and controversial interpretation of the court's mandate, one that may put an end to the debate about whether former President George W. Bush, fearing just such judicial activism, was justified in unsigning the Rome Statute his predecessor, Bill Clinton, had endorsed. Although the prosecutor's preliminary examination may not result in a formal investigation of Americans, the mere potential of a legal confrontation between the court in The Hague and Washington should be disconcerting to the White House, not to mention to all Americans.
Remember the big fight in Britain right now is whether it was 'illegal' for the Brits to help liberate Iraq.
In any event, the ICC's very existence is already changing the way Western nations fights wars. Mr. Ocampo recounted how a legal adviser to NATO told him that troops these days are trained to realize that, in case of transgressions, they could be arrested and brought to the ICC on war crimes charges with the help of evidence provided by NATO itself.

"That is the new world," Mr. Ocampo said proudly. I asked the obvious follow-up. "If this is the 'new world,' why do you bother collecting information about NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan?" Why, in other words, when his task is to end the impunity for the worst war crimes, does he spend his limited resources on the most advanced democracies in the world--which operate under strict rules of engagement, have their own chain-of-command investigations and swift prosecution of criminals? Mr. Ocampo got slightly irritated.

"You are suggesting that we are a court only for the Third World. That's what the Arab world said about Bashir, that we are using double standards," he explained. "I said no, I prosecute whoever is in my jurisdiction. I cannot allow that we are a court just for the Third World. If the First World commits crimes, they have to investigate, if they don't, I shall investigate. That's the rule and we have one rule for everyone."

Mr. Ocampo--who has a photo of himself with the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, on his windowsill--could have pointed out to his Arab interlocutors that the real double standard was their own complaining about alleged Western aggression against Muslims while they protect Sudan's Bashir, the greatest butcher of Muslims in modern history. The fact that Mr. Ocampo mentioned the Sudanese perpetrator of genocide in the same breath with alleged crimes of NATO soldiers shed light on what the International Criminal Court may have in store for the U.S. in the future.
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Africa Horn
Prosecutors appeal decision to acquit Bashir of genocide
2009-07-08
[Beirut Daily Star: Region] Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have appealed the tribunal's decision not to indict Sudan's president on charges of waging genocide in Darfur, according to a document released Tuesday. The court charged Omar al-Bashir with war crimes and crimes against humanity in March for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture, rape and forced expulsions in Darfur Province. But judges said there was insufficient evidence to merit charging him with genocide.

Sudan's president is the first sitting head of state indicted by the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal since it was established in 2002.

However, Bashir defiantly refuses to recognize the court's jurisdiction, and African Union leaders said Friday they would not arrest and extradite him.

Since the court indicted him and issued an international arrest warrant, Bashir has traveled outside Sudan several times without being arrested. The international court has no police force and relies on other countries to execute arrest warrants.

The appeal filed on Monday and released Tuesday said the judges who rejected the three genocide charges were wrong in applying "an evidentiary burden that is inappropriate for this procedural stage." They argue that prosecutors need only prove that there are "reasonable grounds to believe" Bashir was responsible for genocide when asking for judges to file charges.

Instead, prosecutors said, the judges applied a "higher level of proof, one that can be identified only with the standard of proof 'beyond a reasonable doubt."' Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo was in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Tuesday for talks on Darfur with African Union representatives.

African officials believe Moreno Ocampo focuses too sharply on their continent. His office has launched prosecutions in four countries - all of them in Africa.
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Africa Horn
Al-Bashir will face justice, says ICC
2009-06-13
[Mail and Globe] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will eventually face justice, even if it takes six years to arrest him, the prosecutor who indicted him for war crimes said in Cape Town on Friday.

Speaking on South African radio on the last day of the World Economic Forum on Africa, International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo vowed: "Al-Bashir will face justice" even if it takes "two months, two years ... even six years".

The ICC in March issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the western Sudanese province of Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have died since 2003 in an ethnic-based conflict.

Al-Bashir has denied the charges. The African Union and the Arab League have asked that the ICC hold off on indicting him, arguing that the ICC action threatened peace efforts in Sudan.

South Africa, the continent's biggest power, took the same line.

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has been mandated by the AU to intercede with the United Nations on al-Bashir's behalf.

Since the warrant was issued, al-Bashir has travelled to several countries in the Middle East and Africa that are not signatories to the Rome Statute that founded the ICC and not obliged, therefore, to implement the warrant.

Last weekend, he attended a trade meeting of Eastern and Southern African leaders in Zimbabwe.

By doing so, Ocampo said the Sudanese leader was merely "showing his desperation".
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Africa Horn
ICC prosecutor urges Bashir's arrest
2009-03-05
Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo defended the decision to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity against concerns about the repercussion for peace in Darfur in an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya TV.

" The ICC does not call for overthrowing or ousting any government, but calls for bringing Bashir to justice for his war crimes "
Luis Moreno Ocampo, ICC chief prosecutor
"We've got to work now to implement the decision of the judges" chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told Al Arabiya TV in an exclusive interview as the decision was being read by the ICC court. "I think this changes everything."

The interview laid out several implications of the ICC's decision, one of which is the potential overthrow of the Sudanese government as a consequence of the ICC warrant.

"The ICC does not call for overthrowing or ousting any government, but calls for bringing Bashir to justice for his war crimes," Ocampo argued.

"The U.S. does not have power to go into Sudan and bring Bashir to justice, this is something that the Sudanese government must have prerogative for" Ocampa said.

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Africa Horn
Sudan's Bashir must cooperate with ICC: UN
2009-02-12
Sudan must work with the International Criminal Court whatever it decides regarding a possible arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over Darfur, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.

"He should fully cooperate with whatever decisions the ICC makes," Ban told reporters at a news conference.

Last year chief ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo asked the court's judges to indict Bashir for orchestrating what he described as a campaign of genocide in Sudan's western Darfur region that killed 35,000 people in 2003 and at least another 100,000 through starvation and disease.

Sudan rejects the term genocide and says 10,000 people died in the conflict. U.N. officials say at least 2.5 million were left homeless and put the death toll as high as 300,000.

U.N. diplomats say the judges will likely decide in favor of indictment and announce their decision this month.
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