UN's
Gambari
Embraces ICC
Indictee
Bashir, As Ban
Claims War
Crimes Concern
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 20 --
Omar al
Bashir,
indicted for
genocide by
the
International
Criminal
Court, was
pictured
greeted UN
envoy Ibrahim
Gambari at a
ceremony for
the wedding of
Janjaweed
leader Musa
Hilal's
daughter to
Chad's
president
Idriss Deby.
The
UN under
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon was
repeatedly
told Inner
City Press
that it only
deals with ICC
indictees as
strictly
necessary --
defending
flying
ICC indictee
Ahmed Harun to
and from
Abyei, for
example, on
the
grounds that
it was a
(failed)
attempt to
seek peace, as
Inner City
Press has
reported.
But
how can
Gambari's
greeting of
Bashir at a
wedding
ceremony be
deemed
necessary?
Gambari &
ICC indictee
Bashir at
wedding, Ban
concern not
shown, h/t
Ironically,
at the
same time
Ban's
Spokesman
Martin Nesirky
was issuing a
statement that
Ban is deeply
concerned
about fighting
on the Sudan
and South
Sudan
border, for
example in
South Kordofan
where UN
peacekeepers
from
Egypt while
civilians,
including a UN
contractors,
were
slaughtered
right outside
their base.
What
can be the
UN's defense
of Gambari
partying with
Bashir? Or
with Janjaweed
leader Musa
Hilal at
Khartoum's
Rotana hotel?
Gambari
&
Janjaweed
leader Musa
Hilal, Ban
response &
private jet(s)
not shown
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