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2007
Continued Violence
- The
Janjaweed continue to victimize the destitute population of Darfur
as well as the aid workers.
- The
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) have taken the violence beyond
Darfur’s borders into nearby the Kordofan region
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They are attacking government positions and foreign
oil workers at Chinese-run oil fields.
UN Action
- They cited
a lack of security for the participants
- Only about
half a dozen of Darfur's rebel factions attended the talks
- The talks,
therefore, quickly stalled.
ICC Action
- February
2007, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court (ICC), filed a nearly hundred page prosecution document as
evidence with the court's judges naming Ahmad Muhammad Harun, a state
minister for humanitarian affairs, along with Ali Muhammad Ali
Abd-al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kushayb), a leader of the Darfur
Janjaweed militia, as responsible for crimes against humanity and war
crimes.
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The
filing marked the first accusations against the
named individuals as a prelude to a trial.
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On
May 02, 2007, Pretrial Chamber 1, issued warrants
of arrests against the defendants.
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On
December 5, 2007, Moreno-Ocampo briefed the
United Nations Security Council on the status of his
investigations in Sudan.
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reaction, Khartoum government has made no
attempt to hand them over and continues to state that
they will not hand their citizens over to the ICC for
prosecution.
Ongoing Politics
- Under the
Government of Sudan, the Juba had various rebel factions declaring
unification into two major groups,
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The Juba Declaration of Unity came into force on
Nov. 14, 2007, consented to by several factions in
attendance (Sudan
Tribune).
- On Saturday, December 15, 2007,
it was announced that the Darfur factions, who had been meeting in
Juba for more than two months, reunited under the Sudan Liberation
Movement/Army (SLM/A)
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They declared Ahmed Abdelshafi Toba as Chairman of
the movement, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan
Liberation Army, and a member of the Supreme
Command
Council ( Sudan Tribune).
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