Movement, the main rebel group in Darfur
Sudanese military officials said they had killed Mr. Ibrahim and
several of his comrades during a shootout in the southern reaches of
the country. Arab news networks reported that Mr. Ibrahim's family had
confirmed his death. A statement posted by the Justice and Equality
Movementon its Web site confirmed its leader's death and called him a
"martyr." But it said that he was killed when his camp came under "an
airstrike from an unknown airplane that aimed its rockets
withprecision unusual to the regime's jet fighters." The statement
blamed a "conspiracy by regional and international players with the
genocidal government in Khartoum."
Earlier reports said Mr. Ibrahim had died in fighting on Sunday.
The death of Mr. Ibrahim, a shrewd and wily leader, representsan
enormous blow to the Justice and Equality Movement, the resilient
group that he founded several years ago and that had recently teamed
up with other dissidents in Darfur for a multipronged rebellion
against thegovernment in Khartoum.
Sudan is home to countless rebel groups. But Mr. Ibrahim's group, with
its thousands of battle-hardened fighters and links to dissatisfied
Islamist elements within the government in Khartoum, is widely
believed to bethe gravest threat. His forces are unified, heavily
armed, passionate and loyal — at least, they were under his leadership
— and Mr. Ibrahim had repeatedly rebuffed efforts to make peace with
the government.
According to a statement from the Sudanese military issued early
Sunday, "The armed forces were able to destroy the renegade Khalil
Ibrahim, who was killed among his group's leaders after along chase
that ended in surrounding him and his forces."
The statement accused Mr. Ibrahim of attacking unarmed civilians and
said that "the armed forces were able to cut the escapees' line of
retreat that was heading toward South Sudan." Al-Suwarmi Khalid, the
Sudanese Army's spokesman, told journalists on Sunday that the group's
current military move wasan attempt to "forcefully conscriptyoung men
into the movement and then head towards South Sudan to join other
rebel groups."
Mr. Ibrahim is believed to have recently reached out to the leaders of
newly independent South Sudan for help in his battle against Khartoum,
but it was not clear how eager the South Sudanese were to get
embroiled in another war after fighting Khartoum for decades. Before
he became a rebel leader, Mr. Ibrahim served as a militia commander
aligned with the central government, and he was blamed for killing
countless southerners during Sudan's civil war, which may have been
another reason the South Sudanese were reluctant to back him.
Tayeb Zein al-Abideen, a political scientist at the University of
Khartoum, said that although the Justice and Equality Movement might
remain a potent force, Mr. Ibrahim's death would benefit the Sudanese
government.
"Ibrahim was able to establish the movement's foreign relations with
Chad, Libya and Eritrea, and therewas no competition with him inside
his movement," Mr. Tayeb said. "It will be difficult to replace him."
Few in Khartoum have forgotten that Mr. Ibrahim and several thousand
of his rebels streamed across the desert from Darfur in aphalanx of
battered pickup trucks in May 2008, making it to Omdurman, a city
across the Nile River from the capital. Government forces managed to
repel the rebels only after intense firefights , which are unusual in
Khartoum.
Most of the bloodshed in Sudan has occurred far from the capital, in
the impoverished peripheries, like Darfur, where marginalized,
non-Arab groups have risen up against the Sudanese Arab-dominated
central government. Many analysts said that Mr. Ibrahim must have been
aided by turncoats within Sudan's security services to have been able
to get so close to Khartoum in 2008.
Lately, though, Mr. Ibrahim, who was thought to have been around50,
was more exposed than ever. His chief patron and weapons supplier,
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, was overthrown and killed. His old
sanctuary, Chad, recently made peace with Sudan
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Subject: SUDAN: ICC PROSECUTOR URGES WORLD TO DO MORE TO END IMPUNITY IN DARFUR
SUDAN: ICC PROSECUTOR URGES WORLD TO DO MORE TO END IMPUNITY IN DARFUR
New York, Mar 5 2012 6:05PM
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today urged
the international community to find "the final solution" for the
problem of impunity in Sudan's conflict-affected region of Darfur,
where he said war crimes have continued despite warrants of arrest
against several senior officials, including the president.
"I think we did something complicated – we investigated the crime, we
collected the evidence, we clarified the responsibilities. But our
effort is not enough if the crime is not stopped," Luis Moreno-Ocampo
told reporters at UN Headquarters.
Just last week the ICC issued an arrest warrant against Sudanese
Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein on 20 counts of crimes
against humanity and 21 counts of war crimes.
Mr. Moreno-Ocampo said Mr. Hussein was in charge of delegating
responsibility for attacks in Darfur and coordinated raids, and was
also involved in the recruitment of the Janjaweed militia who are
accused of carrying out attacks alongside Government forces.
That case will be his last on Darfur before his tenure as ICC
Prosecutor ends in June, he said.
The Security Council asked the ICC to investigate war crimes in Darfur
in 2005 after a UN inquiry found serious violations of international
human rights law.
ICC judges have also issued arrest warrants against Sudanese President
Omar Al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes,
and summonses to appear for rebel leaders Abdallah Banda, Saleh Jerbo
and Abu Garda for war crimes.
The other officials indicted are government minister Ahmed Harun and
militia leader Ali Kushayb.
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