Archivo etiqueta «Darfur»
By George Clooney, an actor and a co-founder of Not on Our Watch and John Prendergast, a co-founder of the Enough Project and a co-author of The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes and Tim Freccia, a Nairobi-based photojournalist and documentary filmmaker who covers conflict and crisis (THE WASHINGTON POST, 17/10/10):
If you had had the opportunity three months ahead of time to prevent Darfur’s genocide, what would you have done?
The world faces such an opportunity today. On Jan. 9, just 84 days from now, the people of southern Sudan and of … Seguir leyendo
By Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who has been the prosecutor of the international criminal court since 2003 (THE GUARDIAN, 15/07/10):
No more excuses. No more denial. This week, the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for three charges of genocide against the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir.
The world once claimed ignorance of the Nazi atrocities. Fifty years later, the world refused to recognise an unfolding genocide in Rwanda. On Darfur, the world is now officially on notice.
The genocide is not over. Bashir’s forces continue to use different weapons to commit genocide: bullets, rape and hunger. For example, the court … Seguir leyendo
By Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani, an adviser to the president of Sudan, and leader of the parliamentary majority (THE GUARDIAN, 13/01/10):
While Ros Wynne-Jones does address some of the dangers that threaten Sudan‘s 2005 comprehensive peace agreement, this year’s elections, and the 2011 referendum, she combines convoluted conflict histories with gloomy predictions, to present only the bleakest picture (Sudan’s new year of fear, 6 January).
Her claim, for example, that Darfur‘s internally displaced population’s “fate is worse than death” relies on outdated stereotypes and ignores the fact that UN figures show Darfur’s mortality rate to be … Seguir leyendo
By Andrew S. Natsios, a professor of diplomacy in Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, special envoy to Sudan from 2006 to 2007 and served as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2001 to 2005 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 23/06/09):
Thirty Sudanese political leaders will meet in Washington today with 170 observers from 32 countries and international organizations, as well as four African former prime ministers, to confront the issues that are slowly pushing Sudan over a cliff. The United States ought to be in a commanding position to mediate in these negotiations, as it did … Seguir leyendo
Darfur: el estado de la situación humanitaria y de seguridad en 2009. Por Pedro Baños Bajo, Teniente coronel, profesor de Estrategia y Relaciones Internacionales de la Escuela Superior de las Fuerzas Armadas (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 22/05/09):
Introducción:
Según datos de principios de 2009, el conflicto en Sudán ha provocado hasta este momento el asesinato de unas 300.000 personas, que 4,7 millones dependan de la ayuda humanitaria y que 2,7 millones de ellas hayan tenido que abandonar sus hogares, convertidos en desplazados y refugiados, hacinándose en alguno de los 200 insalubres, superpoblados y peligrosos campamentos de refugiados instalados tanto … Seguir leyendo
By Gen. Merrill A.”Tony” McPeak, Air Force chief of staff from 1990 to 1994 and co-chaired Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and Kurt Bassuener, a senior associate of the Democratization Policy Council (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/03/09):
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was predictably defiant yesterday in response to the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an order for his arrest because of his war in Sudan’s western Darfur region. More than four years ago, the United States correctly called Khartoum’s action in Darfur “genocide.” But the Bush administration did nothing to stop the killings. Now this ongoing nightmare competes … Seguir leyendo
By Ros Wynne-Jones, the author of Something is Going to Fall Like Rain (THE GUARDIAN, 26/01/09):
Abyei is just one charred town of thousands across Sudan, a place where fire is almost welcome, erasing the visible horrors of war. But it stands at the crossroads of the future of a country, even a continent.
Abyei is in the south of Sudan, a region that until four years ago was ravaged by Africa’s longest war, 40 years of ethnic cleansing, counterattack, and atrocities beyond imagination. Then, four years ago this month, the Arab Muslim north and the tribal African … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 05/01/09):
A leading political rival of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan‘s embattled president, is to hold talks with President George Bush in Washington today, in what will be seen by ruling circles in Khartoum as further evidence of US attempts to foment regime change in Sudan.
Salva Kiir, a former rebel leader in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)who is now president of semi-autonomous southern Sudan, will discuss implementation of the 2005 north-south Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and other issues during a White House meeting, officials said.
Kiir, who also serves as vice-president in Khartoum’s national … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 30/09/08):
The apparent failure of Sudan to block the formal indictment of its president for war crimes is threatening to plunge the country into renewed internal conflict, provoke a break with the UN and end cooperation of African Union countries with the international criminal court.
Tribunal judges are expected to rule within the next two months on a request by the international criminal court chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, for an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir concerning war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide allegedly committed in Darfur. Although action on the most serious allegation of … Seguir leyendo
By E. J. Dionne Jr. (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/08/08):
When you put the Olympics in the hands of a dictatorship, the results are predictable. Yet the Chinese government still found a way to surprise even its critics — not so much by behaving oppressively but by doing so in a foolish and entirely unnecessary way.
By revoking the visa of 2006 Olympian Joey Cheek at the very last moment because he had the nerve to speak out about Darfur and the Chinese government’s support for Sudan’s barbarous regime, Chinese authorities guaranteed that the opening of these Games would focus as … Seguir leyendo
By Mark Lattimer, the director of Minority Rights Group International and co-editor with Philippe Sands of the book Justice for Crimes Against Humanity (THE GUARDIAN, 16/07/08):
Justifying his move this week to seek an arrest warrant for the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, the international criminal court’s prosecutor, said: “I don’t have the luxury to look away. I have the evidence.” It was a characteristic riposte from Luis Moreno-Ocampo to a barrage of warnings last weekend that the prosecutor should not interfere with the difficult situation in Darfur and damage any last chances of a peace deal (not that … Seguir leyendo
By Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/07/08):
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has made the tough decision to seek an arrest warrant for a leader of a country at war — Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. He is to be charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the last five years of war in Darfur.
One has to go back to the cases against Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia in 1999 and Charles Taylor of Liberia in 2003 to … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 14/07/08):
Opinions differ widely about the likely impact of the genocide charges filed today against Sudan’s leader, Omar al-Bashir, in the international criminal court.
Sombre predictions of political collapse, escalating violence, and the fragmentation of Africa’s largest country contrast starkly with the more complacent view that in the medium term, nothing very much will change.
This uncertainty of perception reflects the muddled and contradictory character of the international community’s response to the Darfur crisis that erupted in 2003 and to Sudan’s numerous other problems, notably continuing north-south tensions and its ongoing dispute with Chad. … Seguir leyendo
By Halima Bashir. Halima Bashir’s story is told in Tears of the Desert, written with Damien Lewis, and published by Hodder (THE TIMES, 14/07/08):
My name is Halima. I come from a warlike black African tribe, the Zaghawa, who inhabit the southern Darfur region of Sudan. But I live as a refugee in London, and it is the horrors of the war in Darfur that drove me from my homeland, scattering my family to the four corners of the Earth.
In the year of my birth, 1979, my father named me Halima, after the medicine woman of our village. … Seguir leyendo
By Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, co-authors of Darfur: A New History of a Long War (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/06/08):
Is the International Criminal Court losing its way in Darfur? We fear it is. Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo’s approach is fraught with risk — for the victims of the atrocities in Darfur, for the prospects for peace in Sudan and for the prosecution itself.
We are worried by two aspects of Ocampo’s approach, as presented to the U.N. Security Council early this month. One concerns fact: Sudan’s government has committed heinous crimes, but Ocampo’s comparison of it with … Seguir leyendo