GUWAHATI: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
OF DARFUR HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE
10 December,2008
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Evidence collected by ICC prosecutor Ocampo has eloquently suggested that Sudanese president General al-Bashir,his former interior,now humanitarian minister Ahmad Harun and their own creation - Janjaweed militia leader - Ali Kushyab had successfully done to death 3,oo,ooo Darfurians and rendered homeless,2.7 million unarmed civilians displaced.Reports suggest that President Bashir used rape ,hunger,genocide as his most efficient weapon of slaughtering citizens under the pretext of counter-insurgency measures.
His excellency's counter- insurgency method,rape as a weapon, for instance , was unimpressive.In certain cases, after arousing Arab-Black ethnic hostilities first, the girls are tied to a tree-hands, legs apart- and then, 20 Bashir's heroes rape continuously.Sometimes relatives are forced to do so, before the parents.Evidence also report that he sometimes celebrates by dancing, the achievements of his patriotic men.The militia are given weapons by interior minister Harun in order to liquidate the civilians-particularly from 3 ethnic-sub-national groups, viz., Fur, Maslit and Zhaghawa. In 2008 July,Ocambo applied for arrest of his excellency Mr .Bashir.In 2005 ,the ICC had been moved by Ocampo for arrest of interior minister and militia leader.A brief excerpt of the ICC document i.e. OTP's 2205 application which had been accepted by the pre-trial chamber is provided herein:
"Since the start of the investigation in June,2005,the Prosecution has collected statements and evidences during 70 missions conducted in 17 countries.---
The crimes alleged in the Application were perpetrated in the context of a non-international armed conflict in the Darfur region between the Government of the Sudan and rebel armed forces,including the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) from about August 2002.Both rebel groups mainly recruit from the Fur,Zaghawa and Masalit tribes.---
The vast majority of attacks carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces and/or Militia/Janjaweed in Darfur were directed at areas inhabited by mainly Fur,Masalit and Zaghawa tribes.---
Ahamad Harun personally delivered arms to the Militia/ Janjaweed in Darfur.He was seen in aircrafts loaded with supplies of arms and ammunition, in some cases G-3s and Kalashnikov assault rifles.---
In Arawala,in December,2003,Ali Kushyab personally inspected a group of naked women before they were raped by men under his command.The victims were tied to trees with their legs apart and continually raped.---
Witnesses described that arrested men had their arms tied wide apart to a plank of wood on the ceiling; their legs were also tied wide apart and a stove was left burning between them."
Al-Bashir had managed all the heinous crimes in Sudan and he tracks down witnesses or, human rights defenders as persons committing treason.The ICC steps in to get hold of such a wonderful person and hold him accountable by terminating the impunity he enjoyed individually.
In retrospect, the genesis started in 1983. Drought in Darfur north,famine in Darfur south, problem of access to resources and political power,compounded in the context of Arab and Black muslims mistrust, among others ,triggered off the imbroglio.As many as 22 rebel groups operate in the zone, sometimes with support from the adjoining sovereign states. The leader of the largest liberation group proposed rotatory presidency or ,he even wanted to be happy with vice-presidentship.Bashir turned any proposal for resources or, power sharing.The UN aid had been extended and peace process could have started in order to hoodwink the international community.
United Nations Security Council passed the unanimous resolution no.1593 of 2005 in order to refer the Darfur crimes to the ICC,hence, the ICC prosecutor Ocampo's application to the pre-trial chamber of the ICC to issue warrant for arrest of al-Bashir.Already Harun and militia leader had been indicted.The game is back to the 15-member of the UN security council, which can defer the matter for one year to start with under the most dangerous article 16 of the Rome statute which should be subject to abuse.
The unipolar world expects the US to conduct international relations with enhanced responsibility.The US government had been opposed to the ICC,enacted Hague Invasion Act,2002,American Servicemen's Protection Act and BIAs in order to disable the ICC.However, the US would love to play good man for a while by supporting the matter of indicting al-Bashir.Barack Obama takes similar stand towards al-Bashir's heinous crimes including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.Human rights day would be a slur to Darfurians as long as al-Bashir walks tall after committing heinous crimes.
On 10th December, human rights day, every one reminds of the next man behind, of the message of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1948 .The ICC complements the national jurisdictions to trace out heinous criminals who violates human rights ,and make them accountable under their sovereign national jurisdictions.If everything fails, the ICC , as the court of last resort, steps in to complement national jurisdictions in termination of impunity.
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Note; From 11- 14, the blog would frozen for personal reasons.From 15 the December,the blog will be on.Sorry for the indscretion-n.sanajaoba,gauhati,Assam.
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