Tag Archives : International Criminal Court

The post-election violence in Kenya from December 2007 to February 2008 in which more than 1,000 people lost their lives has caught the eye of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the chief prosecutor for the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo has requested the judges to permit an investigation into the violence. Soon after the 2007, Kenyan elections, the [...]

If UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were a puppet of the West, particularly of the US, as he is often criticized to be, he would ‘have supported the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect while on the hustings for the UN’s top job, nor would he have pushed so hard on climate change issues for two years of the Bush/Cheney [...]

In Sudan, warlordism makes for uniquely legitimate military infrastructure. The Islamist government in Khartoum is headed by one General Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s chief warlord, who, in spite of an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, continues to ignore [...]

The Sudanese government and the United Nations together had formed a group comprising of both the parties to assess the needs among the people in March 11 to 19. The needs in war-torn Darfur have been assessed and the results are not all that rosy. The United Nations humanitarian officials said that banning the aid groups can only trigger more poverty. [...]

While Hamas is not inclined to stop the rocket attacks on civilian areas in Israel, Israel is not inclined to stop committing war crimes on the people of Palestine. While the entire region is going down into hell, people involved do not seem to be bothered about the loss of lives. The International Criminal Court meanwhile is considering filing cases [...]