The high-level African Union (AU) panel appointed to help end the Darfur conflict is reported to be advocating a South African-style "truth and reconciliation commission" and special courts to try war crimes suspects in the region.
The Sudan Tribune reports that unidentified Sudanese government officials have told the newspaper, Al-Sahafa, that the panel - headed by former South African president Thabo Mbeki - will recommend "home-grown justice mechanisms" as part of efforts to achieve a settlement in Darfur.
The AU has said it appointed the panel to make recommendations on how to "expedite and harmonise the processes of peace, reconciliation and justice" in Darfur.
The reported proposal would constitute a "middle way" between prosecuting Sudanese government officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and granting them effective immunity.
The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and two other senior officials on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity arising out of the Darfur conflict. The court investigated alleged crimes in Darfur on the basis of a mandate, issued in 2005, by the United Nations Security Council.
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But this year's AU summit, apparently under heavy pressure from Libya, resolved not to cooperate with the ICC in arresting the Sudanese leaders. Botswana accused Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who chaired discussion of the matter, of allowing little debate.
The Sudan Tribune reported Tuesday that Mbeki had lobbied intensively to prevent the summit from taking its stand, arguing that it would undermine the work of his panel.
The Tribune said Sudanese officials had now told Al-Sahafa that the panel would recommend "special or hybrid courts and a prosecutor in Sudan" to bring Darfur war crimes suspects to trial. The officials suggested that "all people would be equally treated before the judiciary."
However, Darfur rebel groups told the Tribune that Mbeki's panel was trying to circumvent the ICC. The Tribune quoted Justice and Equality Movement spokesman Ahmed Hussein as saying: "We reject in its entirety any direction to establish courts or venues for justice in the manner described in this report. This is nothing short [of]... an attempt to find an exit for Bashir. Only the ICC can handle the Darfur prosecutions."
Other members of the AU panel include the former Nigerian president, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, former Burundian president Pierre Buyoya and Zambia's Justice Florence Mumba.
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I am in favour of Mbeki's idea that our people who slapped our faces be punished for such violations by ourselves in our homes and not by a certain expert like the ICC. with the Picture of the Sudanese three mothers on this page, one is left with no choice than to advocate that the most horrible available punishment be meted out for the people who wrecked the system. i am also in favour of types of punishement provided it must not be carried out by the capitalists owned ICC. Let our agitation be on the type of punishment we would like to see and not that it must be done by the bias ICC. United State of America is a proponent of arresting african leaders and will continue to champion the course of whom will be arrested or not across the globe as if the world is theirs? but they insist on their citizens not being tried on any foreign land and have blatantly refused to ratify the Rome statute? May be for the ICC to include everybody on the punishment agenda Hague would have to be uprooted from Netherlands to the Washington so that everybody receives fair amount of the ICC's glorious service. Liberian Charles Taylors trial implicated US on different fronts but ICC is not working on those details provided by Taylor in his defence. why?
In his piece entitled White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys,
investigative journalist Keith Snow writes:
First note that the ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy,
where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and
indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To understand this, we can ask WHY NO WHITE MAN HAS YET BEEN CHARGED
with these or other offenses at the ICC (International Criminal Court) which now holds
five black African warlords and seeks to incarcerate and bring to trial another black man,
also an Arab, Omar Bashir.
Why hasnt George W. Bush been indicted ? Or what about Donald Rumsfeld ?
Dick Cheney? Henry Kissinger? Ehud Olmert? Tony Blair?
The sad fact is that the International Criminal Court has become terribly
politicized, as has the entire international justice apparatus.
The ICC has issued indictments, for the first time in history, against a sitting head of
state. Meanwhile, according to Snow, an Israeli weapons dealer, also a reputed Mossad
operative, is revealed to be shipping weapons into Sudan with Pentagon support.
And Belgium changed its law rather than prosecute Ariel Sharon for war crimes.
The double standard cries out to us.
One country in the West, however, increasingly stands out as a place where
justice can be found?and that is Spain. With its landmark indictment of
Pinochet and its current consideration of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and
U.S. torture in Guantanamo, we increasingly look to the Spanish Courts with
hope. It was the Spanish courts that returned indictments against Rwandan
soldiers for genocide even as the world coddles U.S. proxy Rwanda and its
leader, Paul Kagame.
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DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the
United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obamas UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on
the RWANDA MASSACRE . OOOPs!!! She said.
(Heres a Search Link To Many Witnesses To THE NEW U.N. RICE MONSTER)
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