ICC's
Ocampo
Slow on Majer
NATO Deaths,
Duekoue in
Cote d'Ivoire,
2
Stage Justice?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
May 16 -- The
International
Criminal Court
under Luis
Moreno
Ocampo has
seemed engaged
in two-stage
justice, if
that.
In
Libya it
issued
indictments of
the Gaddafi
side, but on
Wednesday
Ocampo told
Inner
City Press
that even in
the case of
NATO's bombing
of Majer,
which
reportedly
killed rescue
workers, he is
merely seeking
more
information.
He declined to
say much about
immunity
offered by the
new Libyan
government to
its own
fighters.
Inner
City Press
asked about
Law 37, which
threatens life
in prison for
praising
Gaddafi.
Couldn't that
hinder defense
lawyers?
Ocampo
shrugged.
Turning
to Cote
d'Ivoire,
where Ocampo
indicted
Laurent Gbagbo
but has yet to
finish
investigating
the Ouattara
side massacres
at Duekoue,
Inner City
Press asked
for an update.
Ocampo said
his office is
working, and
it
will continue
under Fatou
Bensouda. But
why does this
side take so
long?
And now, Cote
d'Ivoire is
talking about
sending
soldiers to
Mali. Could it
be the same
units that
were in
Duekoue?
Inner
City Press
asked if
Ocampo and
Bensouda, on
what's billed
as his
farewell to
Africa tour,
will visit
Kenya, where
some officials
are trying to
move the trial
of the
so-called
Ocampo Four
back to the
East African
Court of
Justice in
Arusha. Why
can't they?
Ocampo
said there
is a lot of
work these
days --
reportedly
they'll go to
Kampala and
not Kenya, to
avoid
controversy --
and did not
explain why
cases
can't be
transferred to
regional
courts. Or, he
said, creating
new
courts is not
enough. But it
is enough in
Libya?
Ocampo
was asked
about the
proposal,
since
withdrawn, by
the so call
Small Five
states
to recommend
that the
Security
Council's
Permanent
Member not use
the
veto in cases
of ICC
specified
crimes. Ocampo
declined to
comment.
Ocampo
was asked
if this was
his "last press conference."
He in turn
asked,
tellingly, "my
last as
prosecutor?"
So what will
be his
next move?
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