http://blogs.ssrc.org/darfur/2008/06/16/what-if-ocampo-indicts-bashir-1/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:36:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/darfur/2008/06/16/what-if-ocampo-indicts-bashir-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1960 Nathan Strong Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:45:59 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/darfur/?p=525#comment-1960 While I recognise your dislike of Bashir we still have to be factual while discussing such a volatile issue. The conflict in darfur has never been proved to be a genocide (except to the American government) and the truth is most Ministers and soldiers with the Bashir government are from darfur, so how is it that they accept the task of cleansing Sudan from their own families? Any attemt to go over the top using the ICC will eventually backfire as it creates a legal precedent which can then be used to go after any Head of State unpopular with the USA !! This will not be acceptable to any country and will lead to the discredit of the ICC especially after its controversial handling of the Darfur crisis while overlooking Israeli war crimes, American civilian casualty rates and Russian assassinations in Chechnya, Abkhazia etc. While I recognise your dislike of Bashir we still have to be factual while discussing such a volatile issue. The conflict in darfur has never been proved to be a genocide (except to the American government) and the truth is most Ministers and soldiers with the Bashir government are from darfur, so how is it that they accept the task of cleansing Sudan from their own families?
Any attemt to go over the top using the ICC will eventually backfire as it creates a legal precedent which can then be used to go after any Head of State unpopular with the USA !! This will not be acceptable to any country and will lead to the discredit of the ICC especially after its controversial handling of the Darfur crisis while overlooking Israeli war crimes, American civilian casualty rates and Russian assassinations in Chechnya, Abkhazia etc.

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