Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
6 February 2008
In April 2007, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first arrest warrants in a three-year investigation of war crimes in Darfur, Sudan, naming Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb and Sudanese official Ahmad Muhammed Harun, who is believed to have been one of the masterminds behind the well-reported mass killings and displacements in the region.
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Africa, like the rest of the world including Europe, Asia, the Americas etc. values and yawns to have PEACE. Everyone knows that without PEACE no true well-being is possible. A glimpse at the recent history from the 60,s shows that a good number of the black African countries including Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Eritria etc. have been forced into mostly civil wars organized, armed and backed by well-known outside forces that for one reason or another feel very strongly that black Africans do not deserve true well-being. The ICC knows too well that the root of the problem in Darfur is caused by militia organized, armed and backed by foreign forces against the government of Sudan to force the government to split the country into two as was done in Ethiopia. The whole world knows that it is the propaganda of these foreign forces that are trying to put the blame on some Janjaweed. In addition to all that happened in Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Somalia etc. where the ICC has not brought anyone to justice, it will be totally against humanity if the ICC decides to apply double standard in Darfur and make the situation worse by punishing the wrong guys.