Another setback for the ICC prosecutor in Sudan.
Judges decided this week that Luis Moreno-Ocampo could not appeal their verdict throwing out the charges against the one and only cooperative indictee from Sudan Idriss Abu Garda, a rebel leader from the Justice and Equality Movement,JEM.
This comes the same week as Omar al-Bashir was confirmed as the president of Sudan. Bashir is wanted - never to be had - by the ICC for war crimes in Darfur. His re-election only reinforces the ICC's powerlessness to enforce its indictments. Two other Bashir allies wanted by the court remain free, along with all the still living indictees from the Lord's Resistance Army and everyone's favourite DRC warlord, Bosco Ntaganda. He's now a general in the Congolese army and reportedly enjoys a mean game of tennis at one of the smarter hotels in the North Kivu capital Goma.
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