Well This Will Be a Relief -- The ICC has noticed Darfur

I'm sure you will all be glad to hear that,

THE International Criminal Court launched an investigation yesterday into suspected war crimes in Sudan, where tens of thousands of people have died since a rebel uprising began in early 2003.

"The investigation will be impartial and independent, focusing on the individuals who bear the greatest criminal responsibility for crimes committed in Darfur," the ICC said in a statement. It did not name any suspects.

The United Nations Security Council voted in March to refer the situation in Darfur to the ICC, the world's first permanent global criminal court, established in The Hague in 2002 to try cases of genocide and human rights violations.

The referral, the first to the ICC by the Security Council, was made possible when the United States, which opposes the court, abstained from the vote after winning guarantees that its citizens in Sudan would be exempt from prosecution by the court.

"The wheels of justice are finally beginning to turn on behalf of the people of Darfur who have been victims of mass slaughter, widespread rape and forced displacement," said Richard Dicker, counsel for New York-based Human Rights Watch.

This is what the multilateralist/NGO groupies consider an appropriate response to crimes against humanity. Tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of blacks are being killed by Arab marauders and the ICC "suspects" that maybe, just possibly, crimes are being committed. They will start to investigate and carefully weigh and sift the evidence, being careful not to offend the sensibilities of the killers. And maybe, some years from now, they will...

Hey guys! Wake up! This is genocide! Do something!

As has been pointed out here many times before: If the US doesn't do it, it doesn't get done. Multilateralism and NGOs are a prescription for inaction in the face of emergency.

If Bush, Blair, and the EU leaders are sincere in their concern for Africa they will tell the UN and the ICC to go to hell and take action. But that would be acting like "cowboys."

Faugh!

Read this disgusting tripe here.