Bury Me Broken

World Court Launches Darfur Genocide Investigation

From the NYTimes:

Prosecutors for the International Criminal Court announced Monday that they had begun an investigation into war crimes in Sudan, opening the door for indictments and warrants for those considered most responsible for the ethnic violence and starvation that has exterminated hundreds of villages in Darfur.

But the Sudanese government, blamed by a United Nations inquiry for much of the violence, has said it will not accept the court's jurisdiction. It has already begun to try to delay legal action by using some of the safeguards built into the court's rules, like insisting that it is conducting its own investigations and will hold its own trials.

Slowly the wheels are turning for a halt to the genocide and government sanctioned raping of women to drive them out of territory of which they rightly inhabited. Slowly.

posted by niteskolar @ 6:22 PM