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International Criminal Court seeks arrest warrants for Gaddafi and sons
by Joseph Ernest April 6, 2011
Newscast Media -- International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said he plans to request arrest warrants for Gaddafi, his sons and close aides, for the violence and crimes they have committed against civilians. The ICC says even before the Libyan uprising, Gaddafi already had plans in place to kill civilians in an effort to discourage protests.
On Tuesday, rebel commander Gen Abdul Fattah Younis complained that bureaucracy was causing Nato to take hours to respond to calls for air strikes.
"[Nato] is letting the people of Misrata die every day," he told reporters in the de facto rebel capital Benghazi. "If Nato should wait another week, there will be no more Misrata."
In The Hague on Tuesday, Mr Moreno-Ocampo said: "We have evidence that after the Tunisia and Egypt conflicts in January, people in the regime were planning how to control demonstrations inside Libya.
"The planning at the beginning was to use tear gas and [if that failed to work]... shooting," Ocampo said.
Nato says international air strikes have reduced Col Gaddafi's military capabilities by nearly a third, but his forces have deliberately moved weaponry into civilian areas and are creating human shields to hide the weapons.
ICC's original intent to prosecute the Libyan leader was published in a statement that said: "The decision to do justice in Libya should be taken by the Libyan people. Currently, Libya is not a State Party to the Rome Statute. Therefore, intervention by the ICC on the alleged crimes committed in Libya can occur only if the Libyan authorities accept the jurisdiction of the Court, (through article 12(3) of the Rome Statute). In the absence of such step, the United Nations Security Council can decide to refer the situation to the Court. The Office of the Prosecutor will act only after either decision is taken". Add Comments>>
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