ICC prosecutor at Darfur Women’s symposium in US capital
The American-based Darfur Women’s Action Group convened a symposium in Washington, last weekend, entitled Women and Genocide in the 21st Century: The Case of Darfur. The head of the Women’s Group, Ne’mat Ahmedai, told Radio Dabanga that the symposium discussed the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile. The participants talked about the need for protection, in particular of women, as well as the continued targeting of Darfuri in Sudan, and the discrimination of Darfuri students at the universities. She said that the participants, among them the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, and representatives of the UN and the US government, stressed the importance of bringing the perpetrators to justice and realising peace in Sudan. Bensouda told Radio Afia Darfur in an interview that the ICC will continue to cooperate with the people of Darfur to ensure that justice will be achieved in the end. “The nomination of President Omar Al Bashir as candidate for the April 20-15 general elections will not relieve him of his indictment by the ICC. The Court is a permanent institution. The arrest of Al Bashir is only a matter of time.” She urged all signatories of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to comply with their obligations towards the Court, arrest the indicted Sudanese officials, and hand them over to the ICC. The Sudanese president faces ten counts on the basis of his individual criminal responsibility under Article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute as an indirect (co) perpetrator, including five counts of crimes against humanity, two counts of war crimes, and three counts of genocide. File photo: ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaking at the symposium in Washington Related:‘Al Bashir should take Kenyan President as example’: Sudan rebels (12 December 2013)ICC demands investigation of Unamid in Darfur (18 June 2014)ICC berates UN for ‘inaction and paralysis’ on Sudan’s President Al Bashir (12 December 2013) ICC judges issue second warrant: Sudanese president wanted for genocide (12 July 2010)
The American-based Darfur Women’s Action Group convened a symposium in Washington, last weekend, entitled Women and Genocide in the 21st Century: The Case of Darfur.
The head of the Women’s Group, Ne’mat Ahmedai, told Radio Dabanga that the symposium discussed the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile. The participants talked about the need for protection, in particular of women, as well as the continued targeting of Darfuri in Sudan, and the discrimination of Darfuri students at the universities.
She said that the participants, among them the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, and representatives of the UN and the US government, stressed the importance of bringing the perpetrators to justice and realising peace in Sudan.
Bensouda told Radio Afia Darfur in an interview that the ICC will continue to cooperate with the people of Darfur to ensure that justice will be achieved in the end. “The nomination of President Omar Al Bashir as candidate for the April 20-15 general elections will not relieve him of his indictment by the ICC. The Court is a permanent institution. The arrest of Al Bashir is only a matter of time.”
She urged all signatories of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to comply with their obligations towards the Court, arrest the indicted Sudanese officials, and hand them over to the ICC.
The Sudanese president faces ten counts on the basis of his individual criminal responsibility under Article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute as an indirect (co) perpetrator, including five counts of crimes against humanity, two counts of war crimes, and three counts of genocide.
File photo: ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaking at the symposium in Washington
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‘Al Bashir should take Kenyan President as example’: Sudan rebels (12 December 2013)
ICC demands investigation of Unamid in Darfur (18 June 2014)
ICC berates UN for ‘inaction and paralysis’ on Sudan’s President Al Bashir (12 December 2013)
ICC judges issue second warrant: Sudanese president wanted for genocide (12 July 2010)
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