Daily Trust (Abuja)

Africa: Yar'Adua Charges African Leaders to End Darfur Crisis

Abdul-Rahman Abubakar

29 October 2009


Abuja — President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has charged African leaders attending the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) conference in Abuja to device means of resolving the Darfur crisis in Sudan.

At the opening session yesterday, President Yar'adua said it is the responsibility of all members of the African Union to find ways at resolving the various crises that engulfed Sudan.

While commending the Thabo Mbeki panel that examined the situation in Darfur, President Yar'adua said "Given the amount of work that has gone into preparing this Report, it is apposite that we critically consider the recommendations contained in it with a view to making our input towards facilitating the effective resolution of the conflict in the Darfur region and in the Sudan as a whole."

He said though the warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir could hamper on-going peace negotiations, "While underlining that the search for justice should be pursued in a way that does not impede or jeopardize the promotion of peace, the PSC reiterated its strong condemnation of the gross violations of human rights in Darfur and the AU's unflinching commitment to combating impunity, in line with the relevant provisions of the Constitutive Act."

President Yar'adua said the conference will consider the report of the seven-man panel chaired by Mr. Mbeki adding "this Session is dedicated to addressing the seemingly intractable political impasse in Darfur."

The 207th session of the PSC in Abuja is to consider a report on the situation in Darfur region of Sudan Republic with a view to determine the next line of action in the peace process.

The ICC has issued warrant of arrest on President Al-Bashir accusing him of various crimes against humanity in the war ravaged Darfur Region.

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Author: ekwealor chinedu Thomas
Wed Sep 2 13:47:22 2009

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?

Author: upliftdarace_144
Wed Sep 2 17:46:48 2009

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 hasn’t 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 ?

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#1

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrpRocaEfQE]

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[http://www.infowars.com/?p=7259]

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[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones ]

#3

BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .

DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?

Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the

United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .

President Obama’s UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on

the RWANDA MASSACRE…. OOOPs!!! She said.

(Here’s a Search Link To Many Witnesses To THE NEW U.N. RICE MONSTER)

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Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.

We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?

Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.

Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.

There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.

We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.

We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.

It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.

And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.

And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others

- Marianne Williamson -

[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]

(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )

God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .

God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.

From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.

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