UN peacekeepers ferry indicted Sudanese official

Reuters has a story up reporting that the UN peacekeeping force in Sudan transported an indicted war criminal to peace negotiations: The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan last week flew a man indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court to a peace meeting in the flashpoint Abyei region, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Reuters has a story up reporting that the UN peacekeeping force in Sudan transported an indicted war criminal to peace negotiations:

Reuters has a story up reporting that the UN peacekeeping force in Sudan transported an indicted war criminal to peace negotiations:

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan last week flew a man indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court to a peace meeting in the flashpoint Abyei region, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.

The mission, known as UNMIS, transported Ahmed Haroun, a Sudanese provincial governor, to Abyei last Friday for a meeting to try to reconcile feuding tribes, officials said. [snip]

Asked about the decision to help Haroun, who is currently governor of Southern Kordofan province which surrounds Abyei, attend the meeting, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said the Abyei clashes were threatening to turn into a wider war.

"And so, Governor Haroun was critical to bringing the Misseriya leaders in Southern Kordofan to a peace meeting in Abyei to stop further clashes and killings," he told reporters.

It would be hard to come up with a better anecdote capturing the justice-versus-peace dilemma.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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