Rebecca Hamilton

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Firefighters work near a destroyed apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 16. (Andrew Marienko/AP)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin bears responsibility for many international crimes committed by his forces in Ukraine. But one of these crimes preceded all the others: the crime of aggression. Aggression is the resort to war in violation of the United Nations Charter. And it is a crime that can be committed only by those with immense power.

On Wednesday, the International Court of Justice, acting with unprecedented speed, ordered Russia to suspend its military operations in Ukraine. That judgement adds great weight to the accusation that Putin’s resort to war has violated the foundations of the global legal order.

We have published a model criminal indictment charging Putin with the crime of aggression, using one of the narrowest definitions of the crime under international law.…  Seguir leyendo »

Sudanese anti-coup protesters take to the streets during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on Nov. 30. Thousands of protesters rallied against a deal reinstating the prime minister after his ouster in a military coup last month. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

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On Oct. 25, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, seized power from Sudan’s transitional government, established after mass protests in 2019 ousted longtime dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The Sudanese people and the international community promptly condemned Burhan’s coup. Now, an agreement between Burhan and the prime minister of the transitional government, Abdalla Hamdok, purports to reverse the coup. In reality, it entrenches military rule.

The Sudanese people did not hesitate in calling out the duplicitous nature of references to democracy in the agreement, signed Nov. 21. Tellingly, 12 ministers of the pre-coup government resigned in response to the signing.…  Seguir leyendo »

Sudan's ousted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, right, arrives for his trial in Khartoum on Tuesday along with 27 co-accused over the 1989 military coup that brought him to power. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images)

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The U.S. government is poised to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, based on an agreement that requires Khartoum to pay $335 million to American victims of terrorist attacks. The deal recognizes that Sudan has met the delisting requirement of a “fundamental change” in leadership following courageous work by the Sudanese people to overthrow a 30-year dictatorship. But this hard-won achievement may be squandered by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who oppose the deal in the mistaken belief that doing so will help secure justice for families of 9/11 victims.…  Seguir leyendo »

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On Feb. 22, Sudan’s embattled president, Omar al-Bashir, declared a one-year, nationwide state of emergency. He subsequently issued five decrees to implement the declaration that collectively curtail fundamental rights to a degree that is unprecedented in the post-independence history of Sudan.

The state of emergency came during peaceful protests — started by the Sudanese people late last year, which now pose a credible threat to the 30-year rule of Bashir’s National Congress Party. Bashir, already wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for atrocities against his own people, clearly recognizes the precariousness of his position following his government’s conspicuous failure to stem the protests through use of excessive force.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Across the globe, southern Sudanese are celebrating their imminent independence from the rule of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his predecessors in Khartoum. These northern rulers spent much of the past half-century engaged in a brutal effort to Arabize and Islamize the southern people. International attention is now focused on helping the chronically underdeveloped region of southern Sudan manage the transition to statehood. But what is missing from the conversation is recognition that the looming partition of Sudan creates not just one new nation, but two.

During the past month in southern Sudan it has been easy to get swept up in the rejoicing of a people who have finally realized their multigenerational struggle for freedom.…  Seguir leyendo »