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Darfur: Latest Statements, News and Opinions

09 Feb 2011

Dear all,

Please find below information about recent developments related to the
International Criminal Court's investigation in Darfur, Sudan.

This message includes the latest media statements (I) as well as related news
and opinions (II) related to the Court's investigation in Darfur.

Please also take note of the Coalition's policy on situations before the ICC
(below), which explicitly states that the Coalition will not take a position on
potential and current situations before the Court or situations under analysis.
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about the ICC.

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I. LATEST MEDIA STATEMENTS

A. COALITION MEMBERS' STATEMENTS

1. "UN aids Sudanese official wanted for war crimes", Amnesty International, 13
January 2011,
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/un-aids-sudanese-official-wanted-war-
crimes-2011-01-13

"Amnesty International has urged the United Nations not to help fugitives from
international justice after a Sudanese official wanted for war crimes in Darfur
was provided with a helicopter to fly to a meeting in the Abyei region.

Ahmed Haroun, the Governor of Southern Kordofan, who is the subject of an arrest
warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was given assistance
by the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) so that he could attend a meeting
with members of the Missirya community in Abyei.

'It's outrageous that someone who is wanted by the ICC for crimes against
humanity and war crimes is given transport by UN without being arrested,' said
Renzo Pomi, Amnesty International's representative at the UN....

As Minister of State for the Interior between 2003 and 2005, Haroun was
responsible for the Darfur security portfolio. He is alleged to have been
responsible for recruiting, funding and personally arming the 'Janjaweed'
militia in Darfur and encouraging them to target civilians..."

2. "New Satellite Images Reveal Continuing Human Rights Atrocities in Darfur,
Amnesty International Says - Evidence Collected Shows Whole Villages Burned to
the Ground", Amnesty USA, 2 February 2011,
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/02-0

"New satellite image analysis released today shows that while international
attention is focused on the South Sudan referendum, grave violations of human
rights continue in neighboring Darfur....

Arrest warrants for President Omar al Bashir and several Sudanese officials and
militia leaders have been issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on
charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and in the case of the
president, genocide.

Despite these warrants, international actors and the Sudanese government are
failing in their obligations to cooperate with the court, and arrest those
indicted. Most recently, Amnesty International expressed outrage after the
United Nations not only failed to arrest Governor Ahmed Haroun-indicted for the
alleged recruitment, funding and arming of the 'Janjaweed' militia in Darfur-but
actually provided helicopter transport for the governor to attend a meeting.

'When the United Nations Mission in Sudan gives a ride to one of the alleged
architects of systematic murder, rape, and torture in Darfur, we have to
question the current state of commitment to justice for Darfur. It then becomes
easier to understand why the crimes documented in the Negeha analysis continue
unabated. Impunity-that's what the satellite imagery currently shows,' said
[Scott Edwards, AIUSA Advocacy Director for Africa].

AIUSA calls on the U.S. government to step up its diplomatic support for the ICC
and justice in Darfur, and reiterates that all states and concerned regional and
other international organizations must fully cooperate with the ICC Prosecutor.
Those in a position to do so must arrest indictees and surrender them to the
Court for trial."

3. "Deteriorating situation in Darfour of great concern warn NGOs", FIDH, 8
January 2011, http://www.fidh.org/UN-must-step-up-reporting-on-humanitarian-and

"A coalition of human rights and advocacy NGOs has today warned of rising levels
of violence in Darfur during and after the referendum on southern
self-determination, scheduled to begin tomorrow. The coalition, including Human
Rights Watch, African Centre for Peace and Justice Studies and The Enough
Project has urged the UN Security Council to insist on regular public reports on
the humanitarian and human rights situation in Darfur and throughout Sudan in
order to adequately monitor the situation on the ground...."

4. "Human rights warning over South Sudan referendum", Amnesty International, 7
January 2011,
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/rights-warning-ahead-south-sudan-refe
rendum-2011-01-07

"Amnesty International has warned of increasing human rights violations in Sudan
as the country's referendum on southern independence takes place.

Thousands have been displaced by the government's military offensive in Darfur,
while the international community's attention is focused on preparations for the
referendum and the negotiation of a peace agreement for Darfur....

Since December 2010, more than 20,000 people in Darfur have been displaced
during attacks by the Khartoum government's attacks on various parts of North
and South Darfur, including camps for the displaced in Dar Al Salam, Shangil
Tobaya and Khor Abeche.

'In 2004 and 2005 negotiations and preparations for signing the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement between north and south Sudan allowed attacks, displacement and
crimes committed in Darfur to go unnoticed by the international community. This
mistake must not be repeated,' said Amnesty International...."

5. "Women in Darfur Deliver a Petition to United Nations Security Council
Delegation", Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, 25 January 2011,
http://www.iccwomen.org/news/berichtdetail.php?we_objectID=95

"On 10 and 11 October 2010, a UN Security Council delegation visited North
Darfur, led by British Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant, and including US
Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice and Ugandan Ambassador to the UN Ruhakana
Rugunda. The delegation met with government officials, community
representatives, including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and the UN. Some
IDP women leaders were able to meet with the delegation and deliver a petition
in which they voiced their concerns about the humanitarian conditions in which
IDPs are living in North Darfur. Women highlighted the lack of implementation of
the UN Security Resolutions on Darfur and the deterioration of the security and
humanitarian conditions in the camps, and called upon the international
community to take urgent action to put an end to the Darfur conflict.

Women's Initiatives' partners in the IDPs camps of North Darfur informed us that
those who met with the Security Council delegation faced threats by the Sudanese
Government and had to go into hiding as a consequence of speaking out about
conditions in the IDP camps."

Read the petition:
http://www.iccwomen.org/documents/ENGLISH-Petition-presented-by-the-displaced-wo
men-in-North-Darfur-to-the-UN-Security-Council-delegat

B. EU STATEMENT

1. Remarks on Sudan to the European Parliament given by Catherine Ashton, EU
High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy and Vice President
of the European Commission remarks on Sudan, 2 February 2011,
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/67&format=HTML
&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

"...Finally a word on justice. Lasting peace in Darfur cannot be achieved
without justice and reconciliation, as underlined by AU High Level Panel on
Darfur. There has to be an end to impunity. The Council has repeatedly recalled
the obligation of the Government of Sudan to cooperate fully with the
International Criminal Court pursuant to UNSC Resolution 1593...."

II. LATEST NEWS AND OPINIONS

A. COALITION AND MEMBERS QUOTED

1. ICC Justice a Dream Deferred, IPS, 31 January 2011,
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54304

"The African Union Summit drew to a close today in the Ethiopian capital, Addis
Ababa....

Stephen Lamony, the Outreach Liaison for the Coalition for the International
Criminal Court (CICC) told IPS many African governments were uncomfortable
attending the Summit alongside the indicted Bashir.

'While many of them did not want to associate or be seen with ICC Suspect Omar
al-Bashir at the AU summit (because of the crimes Al-Bashir allegedly committed
in Darfur), they could not alienate him because of his role in the Sudanese
referendum and the manner in which it was conducted as he did not interfere in
the elections. As such, African states parties could not ignore his contribution
to the transition process in Sudan,' he told IPS via email....

'In the past decade alone, millions of Africans have lost their lives in
conflicts and have been the target of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and,
arguably, genocidal campaigns perpetrated against them. By attempting to punish
those responsible for these crimes, the Court is standing up for African victims
and attempting to prevent the future occurrence of atrocities. African
governments, together with civil society, played an active role in establishing
the International Criminal Court.'..."

2. "UN Accused of Caving In to Khartoum Over Darfur" by Simon Jennings, Katy
Glassborow, Tajeldin Adam, Assadig Mustafa Zakaria Musa, IWPR, 7 January 2011,
http://iwpr.net/report-news/un-accused-caving-khartoum-over-darfur

"Human rights and civil society activists are joining the region's internally
displaced people, IDPs, and Sudanese opposition politicians in calling on UN
agencies not to duck their responsibilities in order to keep Khartoum on side.

This comes as conditions in IDP camps deteriorate, with the government delaying
food and medical supplies and many children often too hungry to go to school.
One Sudanese opposition politician interviewed for this report claimed that some
of the weakest camp inhabitants have started to die because of the shortages.

"International humanitarian capacities have been seriously eroded and impaired
to a point that leaves Darfuris in a more vulnerable position now than at any
other time since the counter-insurgency operations and forced displacements in
2003," reads a recent paper, Navigating Without a Compass: The Erosion of
Humanitarianism in Darfur, published by Tufts University in the United States.

... In October last year, the head of the UN children's agency UNICEF, Nils
Kastberg, told Fi al Mizan, a radio programme made by IWPR and Radio Dabanga,
that Khartoum is preventing his agency from releasing reports about malnutrition
in IDP camps.

... Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, ICC, say that restricting
humanitarian aid is further evidence of a continued genocidal campaign against
the people of Darfur by the Khartoum government.

... The Sudanese government, meanwhile, insists that it is meeting its
obligation to look after IDPs in Darfur.


... WALKING A TIGHTROPE

According to UN officials who spoke to IWPR, the Sudanese government is actively
preventing UN agencies which operate on the ground from accessing information
necessary for compiling much needed reports on the humanitarian situation in the
region.

But there are reasons why agencies fail to stand up to Khartoum and confront the
interference. Khartoum has proved its willingness to expel international aid
organisations which it fears are working against it. In March last year, in the
wake of the arrest warrant issued for President Omar al-Bashir by the ICC, 13
aid agencies were expelled on suspicion of collaborating with the court.

As a consequence, UN agencies feel they must tread very carefully. "We try to
produce very credible reports based on impartial information," one UN source
told IWPR. "But this requires us to be careful not to describe all access
problems as the government deliberately trying to obstruct humanitarian aid."

"We don't have the access we'd like into camps in Darfur, or the knowledge we
need."

UN and diplomatic sources who spoke to IWPR say Khartoum is deliberately
undermining humanitarian efforts.

"The clear pattern is one of obstruction and making it more difficult for
humanitarian organisations to do their work. The ones more concerning to the
government are the UN agencies [because] the view that the government has is
that it is heavily influenced by UNSC (UN Security Council) members," Richard
Williamson, the former US envoy to Sudan under the George Bush's administration,
told IWPR.

UNAMID is regularly blocked from accessing areas or denied entering airspace
over Darfur. Sometimes, this is out of concern for UNAMID personnel. More often,
say IDPs, this is because the government wants to bomb suspected rebel
strongholds without UNAMID interference.

"The government is very sceptical of international humanitarian groups and the
UN. They have not provided safe travel lanes to flow through Sudan. This got
worse right after ICC issued an arrest warrant for Bashir, which was not only a
reaction but a way to recalibrate their control," Williamson said.

The Tufts paper says Khartoum has blocked humanitarian agencies from entering
what it describes as unsafe areas. But even that curb on their operations -
premised on concerns for their safety - does not account for the erosion of
humanitarian capacities, according to the research.

... Meanwhile, people in IDP camps say the situation is deteriorating but no
alarm bells are being raised. "Children don't have enough food to eat," a
Sudanese health worker in one of the Darfur camps told IWPR.

Since early 2009, both UNICEF and the UN aid coordination agency OCHA have
failed to regularly publish key humanitarian updates, relied upon by various
actors to gauge need in Darfur.

... Human rights groups say that this is part of the government strategy to keep
attention off Darfur, in the run-up to the January 9 referenda on independence
for South Sudan and the Abyei region - especially in the wake of the US
promising Sudan that if the votes go smoothly, it will take the country off its
terror black list.

"This is part of an attempt to stifle information coming out of Darfur at a very
critical time when the government is under a lot of pressure to make the world
believe that Darfur is no longer a problem and the conflict is over. We know
from our own investigations that this is simply not true," said Jehanne Henry,
Human Rights Watch's Sudan expert.

But humanitarian agencies are faced with a real dilemma: do they stay in the
country put up with interference and shut up, or do they speak out and risk
millions of civilians being further cut off from essential aid?

A lawyer for an international NGO told IWPR that UN agencies can and should
speak out. "UN agencies should have always the authority to make statements and
disagree with the government. That is fully in their mandate. If they don't
[speak out], then they don't do the basics in the best interests of the people
they have to protect," the source said.

Meanwhile, Eltom, of the Sudanese embassy in London, said that the humanitarian
affairs commission, widely regarded as the government agency most responsible
for interference, does not obstruct any aid organisations on the ground.

... CONTRADICTORY OBJECTIVES

But it is clear that the government - which as a sovereign state has primary
responsibility for the humanitarian and peacekeeping effort - has different
objectives to the non-governmental humanitarian groups and peacekeeping agencies
on the ground.

Observers say that hampering access to IDPs is part of a planned strategy aimed
at controlling the displacement camps - which the government views as breeding
grounds for rebel support - and returning their inhabitants to their former
villages.

But IDPs who want to return home have told IWPR that they are scared to do so
with no guarantee of security. They also say the government has given their land
away to Arab militias.

UN sources have confirmed to IWPR that aid operations are restricted by
government interference. "We are concerned about the humanitarian situation.
There is much we'd like to do which we can't in terms of access," one source
said.

Humanitarian workers face constant threats of kidnapping. Three Latvian pilots
working for the UN's World Food Programme were recently released, having been
abducted at gunpoint from their homes in Nyala, south Darfur, a few weeks
earlier.

... This has left some UN agencies needing to negotiate with the government in
order to fulfil basic tasks.

Speaking to IWPR and the Radio Dabanga programme Fi al Mizan, Ibrahim Gambari,
head of the UNAMID operation, accepted there were levels of interference but
that UNAMID was addressing them.

... When pushed on whether it is appropriate to negotiate on the provision of
peacekeeping services, Gambari said that this is the reality of operating on the
ground.

... Scores of IDPs interviewed by IWPR on the ground have said they are confused
by what they see as the inaction of UN agencies in the face of government
interference.

... Gambari was also clear that UN agencies should speak up about government
interference and the restrictions they face.

... Still, the threat of expulsion is very real for UN agencies on the ground.
Williamson, the former US envoy to Sudan, said this is part of the government's
agenda, aimed at how best to handle the UN in order to meet its own objectives.

... Salih Osman, a Khartoum-based Sudanese lawyer and member of the Communist
Party, has called on the UN agencies to speak up and says they have a duty not
to allow themselves to be manipulated by the government.

"The most shameful thing is that even until now; [the UN] doesn't even report or
release their reports about this humanitarian disaster. The leaders of these
agencies are compromising their positions with the safety and interests of the
victims. They do that to be allowed to continue to work there. This is
corruption," Osman said.

Henry of HRW said that the responsibility lies on the shoulders of the UN
mission to report accurately on what is happening in Darfur.

"There is a need for the UN mission leadership to actually want to be reporting
on what is going on in Darfur and describing it accurately. But apparently it is
not making this a priority any more. Instead, it seems the mission has been more
focused on other priorities responsive to the government's new strategy for
Darfur, which prioritises accelerating IDP returns back to home villages," Henry
said.

"Until the situation improves from a security and human rights perspective, the
idea to accelerate returns does not seem very appropriate. This seems more the
UNAMID's focus, these days, since the government announced its new strategy in
Darfur. Not so much the human rights mandate, which was at the heart of the
original UN mission in Darfur several years ago."

Scores of IDPs Radio Dabanga and IWPR have spoken to say that they want to
return home only when their safety and security can be guaranteed.

The government, they say, has so far made no effort to ensure their safe return
to their villages, or ensure their safety once they have gone back. Little
effort has been made to rebuild destroyed villages, nor to provide clean water
supplies or education or medical services, they say.

As such, Osman, the lawyer and opposition politician, said the UN's cooperation
with the government amounted to collusion and was part of the international
failure of the people in Darfur.

... KEEPING SILENT

The dilemma facing UN agencies is whether to risk a further government clampdown
by publicly denouncing its interference or try their best to work within the
constraints to deliver at least a certain level of aid.

Osman, however, was unequivocal about the responsibility of the UN. "This is a
huge failure of UN agencies and UN organisations responsible for the protection
of the people," he said. "Why are they there? Why are they accepting the
situation, where violations are occurring in the way that no one on the outside
can imagine."

In a written statement to IWPR, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Sudan,
Georg Charpentier, said, "UN humanitarian agencies are not confronted by
pressure or interference from the Government of Sudan. WFP, for example, is
presently distributing food to 90 per cent of the target population in Darfur.
The government has recently extended fast track procedures for NGOs in Darfur
until January 2012.

... But HRW has called for agencies to be more open about the challenges they
face in Darfur.

"We wish the human rights section would be a lot more vocal and that they would
be reporting properly what is going on. They've got a dual reporting line so
they can use their connection with the [Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights] in Geneva to publicly report on the human right situation but they
don't, they're being very silent," Henry said.

Meanwhile, the UN continues to try to negotiate its way - normally behind closed
doors - to improving the situation.

... The levels of interference appear to vary at different times and according
to which government official is engaged on any given element of the humanitarian
response.

... Some put the situation down to the Security Council's apparent unwillingness
to take a firmer stance on Darfur. Having referred the atrocities to the ICC in
2005, the council has been silent since.

"The politics of the Security Council were obviously very important in
understanding why the UN was not more robust in its monitoring and human rights
reporting," Henry of HRW said. "I think it is pretty obvious that the UN
Security Council is hampered by the politics of [its] various [members]."

However, others insist that instead of relying on the UN in New York, UN
agencies on the ground should speak out if there is evidence to suggest the
government is not fulfilling its obligations.

If they fear expulsion, David Donat-Cattin of Parliamentarians for Global
Action, a network of over 1300 legislators from more than 100 elected
parliaments around the world, says the agencies could present a united front.

"If they would act in a harmonised way, then the question for the government
would be whether it could expel everyone. The Sudanese are very smart
diplomatically and politically speaking, they know how to alternate the carrot
and the stick. The government is not willing to completely isolate itself. It
didn't withdraw from the UN charter after the Bashir arrest warrant," Donat
Cattin said.

Osman says the international community has a legal, moral and ethical
responsibility to protect lives of millions of survivors in Darfur.

"They need to lobby the government of Sudan. Otherwise, they are facilitating
the government's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur," he said...."

3. "Rights Groups Fear Quid Pro Quo for Peaceful Transition," By Aprille
Muscara, IPS, 7 February 2011, http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54397

"Amid renewed pockets of unrest throughout Sudan and continuing violence in
Darfur, government officials in Khartoum announced Monday that a whopping 98.83
percent of southern voters - numbering more than 3.8 million in a country of
over 42.3 million - cast their ballots in favour of secession during last
month's highly anticipated referendum.

The results were received positively by Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
- a seemingly encouraging sign for the country's potential normalisation of
relations with the international community.

"[W]e accept and welcome these results because they represent the will of the
southern people," al-Bashir, who is under indictment by the International
Criminal Court for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in
Darfur, said in an address aired on state television.

"Now, all parties have a responsibility to ensure that this historic moment of
promise becomes a moment of lasting progress," U.S. President Barack Obama said
in a statement Monday.

With the successful completion of the referendum and al- Bashir's acceptance of
the results, the road to peaceful secession seems to be paved, but many
contentious issues remain unresolved.

"The peaceful conclusion of the southern Sudan referendum for independence is an
historic accomplishment, but recent troubling events underscore the importance
of continued U.S. engagement in the north and the south," said Amir Osman,
senior director for policy and government relations for the Genocide
Intervention Network/Save Darfur Coalition (GI- NET/SDC), in a statement Monday.

Last week, seemingly inspired by the mass demonstrations of Tunisia, Egypt and
elsewhere, hundreds of restive Sudanese youth took to the streets in protest of
rising food and fuel prices and human rights abuses. Many were beaten, tear-
gassed and arrested by police.

And in the volatile region of north Darfur, which is in the western part of the
country, renewed fighting between government and opposition groups have prompted
thousands of families to flee their villages, according to rights groups.

... With the stakes of the referendum so high - namely, the threat of a
recommenced civil war, which raged for over two decades, took an estimated two
million, mostly southern, lives, and was finally halted by a Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA) six years ago - Western policymakers have incentivised the full
implementation of the CPA.

In seeming exchange for Khartoum's lawful and peaceful compliance in allowing
the embattled, resource-rich south to break away if it so desired, a number of
compelling carrots are being dangled.

One of them is the promise to reconsider Sudan's classification as a country
that systematically supports international terrorism. As a result of this
designation, the eastern African nation is subject to a series of restrictive
sanctions.

"Removal of the State Sponsor of Terrorism designation will take place if and
when Sudan meets all criteria spelled out in U.S. law, including not supporting
international terrorism for the preceding six months and providing assurance it
will not support such acts in the future, and fully implements the 2005 [CPA],
including reaching a political solution on Abyei [a contentious region bordering
Darfur, south Sudan and the rest of the country] and key post-referendum
arrangements," added Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a separate statement.

The Financial Times also reported Sunday that French and U.S. officials agreed
to a summit to be hosted by the African Union, in which a one-year deferral of
al-Bashir's ICC indictment would be considered.

Any postponement would have to be mandated by the United Nations Security
Council and be made on the grounds that a delay is required to preserve
international peace and security, according to article 16 of the Rome Statute,
which established the ICC.

Rights groups argue that suspension sets a dangerous precedent, threatens the
Council's credibility, and robs victims and their families who have been
subjected to heinous crimes of potential justice.

"A deferral of the ICC's judicial role risks denying redress to the victims of
horrific abuses and must be invoked with extreme caution," three Human Rights
Watch officials wrote in a letter to the U.N. Security Council in September
2008, amidst a diplomatic campaign by Khartoum for an article 16 delay for
al-Bashir, whose warrant was requested that year and issued the following
spring.

"Khartoum has time and again made commitments to Security Council members and
the international community that have proven to be worthless," they said at the
time. ..."

SEE ALSO:

3. "Amnesty calls on Sudan to tackle human rights abuses ahead of referendum",
Sudan Tribune, 7 January 2011,
http://www.sudantribune.com/Amnesty-calls-on-Sudan-to-tackle,37524

4. "Amnesty irked by U.N. action in Sudan", UPI, 14 January 2011,
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/01/14/Amnesty-irked-by-UN-action-in-Sud
an/UPI-60481295026608/

5. "Rights group urges UN to cooperate with ICC relationship agreement", by
Carrie Schimizzi, JURIST, 14 January 2011,
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2011/01/rights-group-urges-un-to-cooperate-with-icc
-relationship-agreement.php


B. OTHER NEWS AND OPINIONS

1. "South Sudan May Join the International Criminal Court (ICC)", IQ4 News,
31 January 2011,
http://www.iq4news.com/iq4news/south-sudan-may-join-international-criminal-court
-icc

2. "South Sudan mulls joining the ICC after secession", Sudan Tribune, 26
January 2011 http://www.sudantribune.com/South-Sudan-mulls-joining-the-ICC,37777

3. "South Sudan considers ICC membership: minister", by Jason Benham,
Reuters, 26 January 2011,
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE70P07720110126

4. "Carter: south Sudan may not sign up to ICC", RNW, 13 January 2011,
http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/carter-south-sudan-may-not-sign-
icc

5. "Hopes of 'South' Sudan", The Japan Times, 3 February 2011,
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20110203a1.html

6. "Sudan's ICC Dilemma", by Mohammed Abdulrahman, RNW, 19 January 2011,
http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/sudans-icc-dilemma

7. "The ICC v. Sudanese Stability: How the results of the South Sudan
Referendum might jeopardize the possibility of an international criminal
jurisdiction" by Daniel Fombonne, Legal Frontiers, 28 January,
http://www.legalfrontiers.ca/2011/01/the-icc-v-sudanese-stability-how-the-result
s-of-the-south-sudan-referendum-might-jeopardize-the-possibility-of-an-internati
onal-criminal-jurisdiction/

8. "Sudanese official admits Darfur war crimes probe a fiasco", Sudan
Tribune, 27 January 2011,
http://www.sudantribune.com/Sudanese-official-admits-Darfur,37771

9. "Darfur's special prosecutor admits pursuit of justice obstructed by
politics", Sudan Tribune, 26 December 2010,
http://www.sudantribune.com/Pursuit-of-justice-in-Darfur,37410

10. "France protests to the UN over transporting of Sudanese war crime
suspect" ,Sudan Tribune, 25 January,
http://www.sudantribune.com/France-protests-to-the-UN-over,37744

11. "Sudan protecting Darfur war crimes suspects: justice minister", The
Daily Star, 27 January 2011,
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=1241
61#axzz1CpazhG4m

12. "Even the U.N. Is Ignoring the ICC Arrest Warrants in Sudan" by Julian
Ku, Opinio Juris, 21 January 2011,
http://opiniojuris.org/2011/01/21/even-the-un-is-ignoring-the-icc-arrest-warrant
s-in-sudan/

13. "UN provided transportation to Ahmed Haroun, wanted by ICC for crimes
against humanity and war crimes in Darfur", by Mia Farrow, 18 January 2011,
http://miafarrownews.blogspot.com/2011/01/un-provided-transportation-to-ahmed.ht
ml

14. "UN in Sudan Didn't Ask Security Council As Flew War Criminal Haroun to
Abyei", by Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City Press, 12 January 2011,
http://www.innercitypress.com/un2harun011211.html

15. "Wanted by the ICC, a Sudanese official travels aboard a UN helicopter"
["Recherché par la CPI, un officiel soudanais voyage à bord d'un hélicoptère de
l'ONU"], Le Monde esprit de justice blog, 13 January 2011,
http://justice-inter.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/01/13/recherche-par-la-cpi-un-officiel
-soudanais-voyage-a-bord-d’un-helicoptere-de-l’onu/

16. "UN flies ICC fugitive to Sudan peace meeting", by Thijs Bouwknegt, RNW,
12 January 2011,
http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/un-flies-icc-fugitive-sudan-peac
e-meeting

17. "Wanted Sudan war criminal given UN transport: spokesman", AFP, 11
January 2011,
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hIJ3eYKSeMFBU3h6vaNPKDGTUMZQ?
docId=CNG.6bafe0da3b2e30eb6e9291a9552181c1.7c1

18. "As UN Admits Transporting ICC Indictee Harun to Abyei, NGOs & US Have
Yet to Speak", by Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City Press, 11 January 2011,
http://www.innercitypress.com/un1harun011111.html


19. "When UN Flew Haroun, No Reimbursement or Flight Manifest", by Matthew
Russell Lee, Inner City Press, 1 February,
http://www.innercitypress.com/un3harun020111.html

20. "Come fly with me: U.N. loans plane to accused war criminal" by Colum
Lynch, Foreign Policy,
http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/24/come_fly_with_me_un_loans_pl
ane_to_accused_war_criminal

21. "ICC war crimes suspect travels in UN helicopter", Radio Dabanga, 10
January 2011, http://195.190.28.213/node/8228

22. "Darfur war criminal unlikely peacemaker", by Haroon Siddiqui, The Star,
http://www.thestar.com/article/918401--siddiqui-darfur-war-criminal-unlikely-pea
cemaker

23. "ICC issue dominates talks of Sudan FM in Paris", Sudan Tribune, 5
January 2011,
http://www.sudantribune.com/ICC-issue-dominates-talks-of-Sudan,37500

24. "Al-Bashir more wanted in Sudan than in The Hague", by Ruben Koops, RNW,
4 January 2011,
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e-0

25. "Qatar's former justice minister calls on Bashir to accept ICC trial in
Sudan", 3 January 2010,
http://www.sudantribune.com/Qatar-s-former-justice-minister,37470

26. "US embassy cables: China indifferent to Bashir's prosecution", Sudan
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27. "China not opposed to Sudan leader's arrest: WikiLeaks", AFP/Terra
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Leaks_999.html

28. "Sudan leader Bashir diverted $9bn oil funds to Britain, says
WikiLeaks", AFP/Daily Nation, 18 December 2010,
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/1074802/-/122whsg/-/index.html
29. "Prosecutor Confirms Accusation Against Sudan Leader", by Marlise
Simons, The New York Times, 1 January 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/africa/02wikisudan.html

30. "ICC probes Bashir's possible overseas funds", Linawati Sidarto, RNW, 20
December 2010,
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ible-overseas-funds

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to-go/UPI-80661296502681/

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30 December 2010, http://www.radiodabanga.org/node/7742

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prison", Sudan Tribune, 24 December 2010,
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2/

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