The Washington Post reports that ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will put forth his case against Mr. Bashir on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity on Monday. The Post writes that Mr. Moreno-Ocampo's action would be "first time that the tribunal in The Hague charges a sitting head of state with such crimes, and represents a major step by the court to implicate the highest levels of the Sudanese government for the atrocities in Darfur." ...
The news of Moreno-Ocampo's impending request has put the UN on edge, reports The Times of London, as it could prompt a violent response from Bashir's regime ... Arthur Bright, ICC prosecutor to seek arrest of Sudan's president for genocide, Christian Science Monitor, 7-11-08
Luis Moreno-Ocampo is right in what he is going to do.
Because it is not just Darfur that is dying a slow, agonizing death, it is the conscience of the world that is terminally ill. But it does not have to end this way.
Whatever flag they wrap themselves in, however high and mighty they are, they should be hunted down -- like Augusto Pinochet and Byron de la Beckwith (the murderer of Medgar Evers) -- even into their old age. Whatever flag they wrap themselves in, however high and mighty they are, you should leave them nowhere to turn.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center understands this spiritual imperative.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has strong evidence the leader of their list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals is still alive and residing in southern Chile or Argentina.
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Latin America director, Sergio Widder have been dispatched to Argentina to track SS doctor Aribert Heim, known as 'Dr. Death'. Heim murdered and committed experimental medical atrocities on hundreds of inmates at Mauthausen concentration camp where he was the camp doctor during WWII. Media Advisory-Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center: Hunt for the World's Leading Nazi War Criminal Leads to South America, 7-10-08
And yes, Philippe Sands and Vincent Bugliosi understand it as well.
I do not know if Moreno-Ocampo will make it to the Hague on Monday. I do not know if he will name Bashir and thus set an important new precedent, by naming a sitting head of state. But I hope he does.
Many obstructionists and denialists will attempt to block his way and then attempt to block his forward journey afterward.
Some voices have risen up in a cacophony of fretting and second-guessing.
Here are some excerpts from the dauntless Eric Reeves' brilliant refutation of two of the most prominent of the denialists:
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