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THE LAST WORD
Rocking The Courtroom
Arlene Getz 3/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Luis Moreno-Ocampo doesn't have the name recognition of Angelina Jolie, but he's shared the stage with her, which makes him something of a rock star among prosecutors. In his six years on the International Criminal Court, the feisty Argentine lawyer has become its public face. He was a hero in the documentary "Darfur Now," appears regularly at the United Nations and makes appearances with Jolie and other celebrity activists. He's also become the unlikely target of criticism by humanitarian groups for his role in indicting Sudan's
DARFUR
Waiting For The Court
Steve Bloomfield 1/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
Pre-trial judges at the International Criminal Court are expected to decide in the next few weeks whether to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. As the waiting continues, tensions in Khartoum grow. On Wednesday, Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, who has been openly critical of Bashir, was arrested. If the ICC grants a warrant, aid workers worry about what the repercussions might be to the U. N. relief effort in Darfur, where about 1,000 international staff and 14,000 Sudanese staff are providing aid to more than four million people. Two U.N. peacekeeping operations, composed of almost 30,000 personnel, are also present in the country. John Holmes, the U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator—the organization's most senior humanitarian official—spoke to NEWSWEEK's Steve Bloomfield in Darfur about the threat of violence against aid workers and his fears for the future funding of the humanitarian operation. Excerpts:
MEMOIR
Piercing the Silence
Arlene Getz 10/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
Too often, atrocities blur into abstractions. The burned-out villages; the camps for the desperate displaced; the brutalized women—for all that we've seen, read and heard about Darfur, for all the celebrities who've adopted it as their own cause célèbre, it's still hard for us to get a real sense of the hideousness that has taken place there. Halima Bashir might be the person who finally pulls us through that barrier.
Fighting Evil
Arlene Getz 12/6/2007 12:00:00 AM
Midway through his nine-year term as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo is ebullient about the prospects—and progress—of the tribunal. As bureaucracies go, he says, the court has moved faster than expected against those accused of war crimes. "This for me is the beginning of a new era in international relations," says the Argentine lawyer.
SOCIETY
Extinction Trade
Sharon Begley
The marauders galloped into Zakouma National Park in Chad, the last refuge of that country's once thriving elephant population. Rather than bother with the few remaining elephants, the attackers last May were after the 1.5 tons of ivory—worth as much as $1.3 million—that Chadian officials had seized from poachers over the years and stored in a strongroom at park headquarters. Neither the audacity of the attack nor its brutality—the raiders killed three park rangers—shocked wildlife officials: some 100 rangers, outgunned and outmanned, are killed every year defending Africa's wildlife. Rather, the shock was the identity of the attackers.
THE LAST WORD
Luis Moreno-Ocampo: The Global Lawman
Arlene Getz
Midway through his nine-year term as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo is ebullient about the prospects—and progress—of the tribunal. As bureaucracies go, he says, the court has moved faster than expected against those accused of war crimes. In New York last week to testify to the United Nations Security Council on Sudan, Moreno-Ocampo, 55, spoke to NEWSWEEK's Arlene Getz and Jonathan Tepperman about the work of the court and its evolving relationship with the United States.