Hi everyone I have some family issues to attend to over the coming month (in addition to keeping up with what is obviously my main focus – the book), which mean I won’t be able to blog as much. I’ll post intermittently, and let people know via twitter (@ bechamilton) if I do put up […]
White House defends Gration against WaPo article
September 29, 2009 by 5 Comments
The ABC’s Senior White House correspondent just posted these comments by Administration officials saying that Gration was mischaracterized in today’s Washington Post. The Washington Post says it stands by Stephanie McCrummen’s piece. I can’t say anything about the comments in relation to South Sudan as I was not there for that part of the trip. […]
More background on Gration and the WaPo article
September 29, 2009 by 1 Comment
A few people have asked me questions about Gration’s interactions on his latest Sudan trip, especially with respect to some parts of Stephanie McCrummen’s Washington Post article since I posted on it this morning. I thought it could be useful to share my responses: Stephanie wrote: During a stop in El Fasher, capital of North […]
Gration, the media, and today’s Policy Review
September 29, 2009 by 4 Comments
A principles meeting is taking place today to (belatedly) finalize the outcome of the Sudan Policy Review that the Obama Administration has been undertaking since it came to office. And in a savvy piece of timing from the Washington Post, they have chosen today to run this piece on Sudan Envoy, Scott Gration, by Stephanie […]
Bureaucratic idiocy
September 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This is a diary entry from when I was in Sudan last month that I haven’t had a chance to post before now . . . It ‘s a nice counterpoint to the logistical ease of travel I experienced on the Gration trip a couple of weeks later. 24 August, 2009 Well – it’s been […]
What’s to stop the outsourcing of justice?
September 25, 2009 by Leave a Comment
[Apologies for the length of this post. The first four paras are a pretty bread-and-butter summary of the decision handed down today. After that I get into my broader concerns about how to support the spirit behind the principle of complementarity.] Judge Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko just handed down the Appeals Chamber’s decision on the […]
But wait, there’s more . . .
September 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
It’s all happening in The Hague tomorrow. In addition to seeing what Nice/Dixon have to say for themselves, the Appeals Chamber will render its decision on DRC warlord, Germain Katanga’s appeal against Trial Chamber II’s decision that his case should indeed be heard by the ICC.
ICC will receive observations from Nice/Dixon in Bashir case
September 24, 2009 by 1 Comment
Following up on an earlier post, the Appeals Chamber has agreed to receive observations from lawyers Geoffrey Nice and Rod Dixon, representing the Sudanese Government the Sudan Workers Trade Unions Federation and the Sudan International Defence Group (SIDG) in the case against President Bashir.
Security provided by those who need their security provided . . .
September 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment
A couple of days ago I did a post on the village of Ain Siro, where I was last weekend. Before I went, there had been some news reports of fighting in the area, and when I was there people said that Chadian rebels had been trying to get in. They also reported being angry […]
Sexual violence against Darfuri women – as reported from one side of the border
A report, entitled “No Place for Us Here” released by Amnesty International yesterday highlights the continuing problem of both the occurrence of rape and the impunity for it in and around the refugee camps in Chad. Amnesty acknowledges the limitations of their research given the general insecurity in the area and the sensitive nature of […]