tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post4854166346741416221..comments2024-03-06T10:16:40.696+00:00Comments on PhD studies in human rights: Inappropriate Comments from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal CourtWilliam A. Schabashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17552332133145290879noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-22715064719527792082010-07-22T19:52:21.542+01:002010-07-22T19:52:21.542+01:00"Ongoing" is not an element of the crime..."Ongoing" is not an element of the crime of genocide under the ICC statute. Moreover, in your zeal to defend President al-Bashir's "innocence," you selectively quote the Secretary General's reports, one of which said in late 2009: "The rainy season brought a number of challenges, including the prevalence of waterborne diseases. Cases of 'watery diarrhoea', or cholera, were reported and<br />contained in Zam Zam IDP camp in Northern Darfur, while morbidity remained high in most IDP camps." This is relevant to whether the group of non-Arabs in Darfur is subject to a plan or policy to destroy the group in part by the creation and maintenance of conditions calculated to destroy its members, wouldn't you say? Turning to more direct violence, the same report in 209 indicated that the United Nations had not yet fully ended Sudan's "attacks on civilians, sexual and gender-based violence against women, arbitrary arrests and detention, summary executions and torture." Why don't you apply the Genocide Convention to these facts in your blog? Finally, the prosecutors for the Bosnia and Rwanda tribunals repeatedly accused various defendants of genocides and other crimes in the press and during public speeches, some of which you probably attended and made no complaint about at the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605495417463810012.post-77111260616991310952010-07-20T13:16:15.118+01:002010-07-20T13:16:15.118+01:00Have you seen this? Thoughts?
THE CHAIRPERSON OF ...Have you seen this? Thoughts?<br /><br />THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMMISSION EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN ABOUT THE NEW DECISION OF THE ICC PRE-TRIAL CHAMBER I ON SUDAN AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ONGOING PEACE PROCESSES IN SUDAN<br />16 July 2010 - The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU) has learned of the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which, following an application by the ICC Prosecutor, issued a second warrant of arrest against the Sudanese President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, on charges of genocide.<br /><br />http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/index/index.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com