Britain proposes labeling attack on Darfur peacekeepers as potential war crime
July 15, 2008 (UNITED NATIONS) — Britain proposed Tuesday night that the United Nations Security Council strongly condemn last week’s brazen attack on peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region and label it “extreme violence” that could be a war crime.
The proposal came ahead of Wednesday’s scheduled council debate over the status of the beleaguered U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force, which due to fears of increasing violence has been pulling out all but its most essential civilians. Britain’s U.N. mission said it hoped the statement would be unanimously adopted as a formal council statement on Wednesday.
On July 8, a convoy of 200 gunmen riding on horseback and SUVs mounted with anti-aircraft weapons ambushed dozens of U.N.-A.U. peacekeepers, killing seven and wounding at least 19 in fierce battles that lasted more than two hours. Five of the 61 Rwandan soldiers and two police officers, one from Ghana and the other from Uganda, were killed.
The situation was made more volatile by Monday’s request from the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court for an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the past five years in Darfur.
Britain’s proposed statement on last week’s ambush would have the council say that it was “particularly concerned that the attack was premeditated, deliberate and intended to inflict casualties,” but also emphasize that “attacks on U.N. peacekeepers during an armed conflict can constitute war crimes.”
(AP)
Akau Malek
Britain proposes labeling attack on Darfur peacekeepers as potential war crime
That’s what is required of international community. You can’t just turn blind eyes to genocide in Durfur. Arabs and Beshire in particular wants to weep off black Africans in Sudan and declare it as islamic country. What happened in Rwanda in 94 is taking place in Durfur today, remember that it is 21st century.
Now the world is getting closer to understanding Sudan’s wars. They (wars) are racially motivated and some ethnic groups will extinct if care is not taken imminently. Beshire is in boiling water now and i hope he enjoys it . Face the music mr president, these are the fruits of your ignorance and ICC makes you burn up.