Thursday, May 11, 2006

UN rights chief urges ICC to act on Darfur

By Richard Waddington

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court must act more decisively to bring to trial those guilty of war crimes in Darfur because Sudanese officials have so far proved incapable of doing so, the top U.N. human rights official said.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, just back from a visit to Sudan, said on Thursday that despite government promises no official had been tried and punished for any of the serious human rights violations committed in the vast western region of Africa's largest state. Read more >>>

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