ICC issues Darfur arrest warrants (BBC)

I wrote previously that the international criminal court in February had named two suspects for 51 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, torture of civilians.

The ICC have now issued warrants for the arrest of the two individuals Ahmed Haroun (Humanitarian Affairs minister) and Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman (Janjaweed leader).

The ICC court is the court of last resort where a nations state is unwilling or incapable of prosecuting war criminals. The expected issuing of the arrest warrants is a damning indictment of the Sudanese government.

The ICC has no police officials and relies on member countries to detain and arrest criminals. Sudan is not a signatory of the ICC but it does have a moral duty to arrest these men. The Sudanese government has given no indication that they will and does not recognise the ICC's jurisdiction over any Sudanese citizen.

So now the world waits for the arrests...waits... and waits...

"Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow"

-Nothing Ever Happens, Del Amitri.

You have to wonder what exactly the world is waiting for. On the BBC the story does not even merit a top story on world news, only a top story in Africa, this truly is the hidden war.