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Libye, Darfur: Where is Paris?
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http://www.karenmillendressesmall.comOn January 7, the plane of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide in Darfur, landed at Tripoli airport, the Libyan capital city " released "Four months ago, thanks to international military intervention in which France played a leading role. The Sudanese dictator was warmly welcomed on the tarmac by members of the new Libyan government, and by Moustapha Abdeljalil, president of the National Transitional Council (CNT), which in 2011 was celebrated by French officials as a hero the fight for the values.
What a dramatic paradox! France and its partners have waged war in Libya to prevent a mass crime, Benghazi. And here the very people that military action had saved place the red carpet ... a head of state fugitive from international justice, accused of the worst atrocities.karen millen Recall that the war in Darfur has, according to UN figures, 300,000 dead, carried away by the violence and disease, and Omar Al-Bashir is covered since 2010 by an arrest warrant for "three counts of genocide against ethnic Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa. "
One can find explanations for this episode geopolitical Sudanese-Libyan. They do not erase the fact that, as noted by Human Rights Watch, the reception given to Omar Al-Bashir "caused confusion about the commitment of the new Libyan authorities with regard desdroits of man" . We can also remember, in passing, that Mustafa Abdeljalil had demonstrated a relative concept of guilt by being the Minister of Justice of Muammar Gaddafi during the disaster of the Bulgarian nurses affair ...
Omar Al-Bashir at least had the merit, in terms of CNT, for contributing, through arms shipments to the rebels, the fall of the "Guide" Gaddafi. And in Libya today, necessity knows no law. The threat of uncontrolled armed militias forced to search for all possible regional support. Not party to the Rome Statute the ICC Building, Libya was also not formally obliged to arrest and surrender the fugitive Sudanese.
The most astonishing is not what happened in Tripoli, but the way Westerners have responded: a deafening silence! France, in particular, has not said a word during the two days of the visit of Omar al-Bashir. Neither commented on the service offerings of the strong man of Sudan with regard to the reform of the Libyan armed forces ... Paris merely, January 9, to recall "its consistent position, which is calling on states to coopéreravec the ICC," and later, of "regret" the visit of Al-Bashir in Libya. Close the ban.
No action has been taken to discourage the Libyans to receive Bashir,karen millen dresses because Paris "unaware" that this movement was about - as he had mentioned the day before by the Sudan Tribune newspaper. The Sudanese president, who had traveled safely in Chad - where French troops are stationed - and Djibouti - where he met the French Minister of Cooperation, Henri de Raincourt - benefits from strange careless mistakes.
But this is, above all, a lot of "holes" in the language elements of France. Especially since it is required to be particularly vigilant because it is she who was responsible for the activation of international justice on Darfur (2005) and Libya (February 26, 2011) pass resolutions by the Security Council of the UN. The ICC is also integral to the concept of "responsibility to protect" invoked to intervene in Libya.
So how to explain these failures? The desire to preserve a "benefit" from the French new government of Libya is obvious. Other calculations could slip: do not hit the Qatar? The emirate, a great ally of France in the Libyan operation was particularly maneuvering when Sudan won a role on the issue of Syria, by placing one of its diplomats at the head of the observer mission the Arab League.
In the end, France, who made so much noise, until recently, about the Armenian genocide of 1915, seemed strangely oblivious of the need for punishment of perpetrators of serious crimes. It has, moreover, failed to made it very clear that the Libyan authorities are not entirely free to decide the fate of Seif Al-Islam - the son of Colonel Gaddafi, held in the south - but must comply with ICC decisions regarding the place and manner of his trial. The Court has given until 23 January to the Libyan authorities to clarify their intentions.
By its inconsistencies, France is vulnerable to accusations of "double standards" by which the West would be interested in international justice only when it serves their interests. karen millen saleThis gap would be less if the French political leaders - and intellectuals who supported the adventure Libyan - were not as exposed in the past, crimes committed in Darfur, before trying to reinvent a posture "rights -of-the hommiste "National of France, in 2011, the war against Gaddafi.
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