UN / OCAMPO DARFUR

STORY: UN / OCAMPO DARFUR
TRT: 2.50
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 5 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK

SHOTLIST:

FILE – 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters

5 MARCH 2012, NEW YORK

2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“The Chamber now issued now a new arrest warrant for 20 counts of crimes against humanity and 21 counts of war crimes against Mr. Hussein. And that would be the last case on Darfur in my tenure.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“As you know its a court decision that what happened in the camps was genocide and its genocide in different forms not just direct killings more through rapes, rapes continue unabated in Darfur and through he conditions of the camps, the condition of the camps are such that people are will be exterminated. There are some reports, New York Times produced some news about this trying to present a more optimistic view, we’d like to check that. We’ll see if this is changing but the current information we have is that the situation in the camps continue to be under genocidal conditions.”
7. Cutaway, press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“We are not investigating the crimes committed in South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Abyei. There are some NGO’s alleging that we have to investigate in fact the same people. They allege that Haroun, as the current governor of South Kordofan, Hussein as the Minister of Defence and Bashir as the President of the country they also committed the crimes in the South. But I’d like to clarify the ICC has no jurisdiction in the South. Our jurisdiction is just Darfur and we’re working there.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“If you are a victim from Darfur and your family was killed and your daughter was raped and they force you to see when they were raping your daughter, if you see the head of UNAMID in a wedding with President Bashir. You will feel probably bad.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. Med shot, O Campo ends press conference

STORYLINE:

The Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) briefed journalists today in New York on a warrant that the Court issued last week (1 March) against Sudan’s Defense Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein.

He said that the Court had found that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Hussein bore criminal responsibility for 20 counts of crimes against humanity and 21 counts of war crimes allegedly committed in Darfur from August 2003 to March 2004.

Ocampo denounced that “rapes continue unabated in Darfur” although he said that the New York Times had produced some news about the issue “trying to present a more optimistic view.” However, he said that the ICC’s current information was that the situation in the camps continued to be under “genocidal conditions.”

He said that some NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) were alleging the need to investigate Ahmed Haroun, the current governor of South Kordofan, Hussein as the Minister of Defence and Bashir as the President of the country for crimes committed in the South. But Ocampo said that the ICC had no jurisdiction in the South. “Our jurisdiction is just Darfur and we’re working there.”

Ocampo was asked about the recent photograph taken of the head of the UN mission in Darfur Ibrahim Gambari shown smiling with President Omar al-Bashir at a recent wedding of Chadian president Idriss Deby to the daughter of a Darfur militia leader in Khartoum. Ocampo said from a victim’s point of view that, “you will feel probably bad.”