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Subject: Re: ugnet_: Freeze Ituri Cash Flow - International Criminal Tribunal


Musaazi:

Let me quote the article below :

a)  " The International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) has said that massacres in DR Congo's 
       ITURI REGION  will continue unless the plundering is checked."


b) "Moreno-Ocampo reaffirmed the urgency of opening a judicial inquiry into the
       war crimes and massacres perpetrated against the civil population in ITURI."

c) According to the UN, the clashes in Eastern DRC  have claimed at least 5,000
        lives and displaced over half a million people since 1999.

d)Ocampo said his office had continued gathering and analysing information 
   from ITURI to determine 

e) Uganda and Rwanda are the two main countries named in the ITURI crisis.

f)  The groups (Militia) were militarily and financially supported by Uganda and Rwanda.


Not  Mr. E Musaazi,  having read the above very carefully ..how then do you begin to comment  about Zimbabwe and Namibia . Where do the two countries fit in?

Anybody who can think  clearly  will agree with  me that Mr Louis Moreno-Ocampo of the ICT  is here talking about the massacres of congolese  in ITURI;  He is talking about the plundering of resources in ITURI region; he is talking about Uganda's/Rwanda's role  in arming  proxy militia in Ituri rgeion.


Matek 



In a message dated 9/29/2003 7:01:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:


  Interesting...what about Zimbabwe and Namibia. I once saw a report on the 
  DRC crissis that implicated Zimbabwean generals for plundering DRC's 
  resources particularly in that they areas that they controlled at the time.


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  >Subject: ugnet_: Freeze Ituri Cash Flow - International Criminal Tribunal
  >Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:34:13 EDT
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  >Freeze Ituri Cash Flow - International Criminal Tribunal
  >
  >
  >
  >>HREF="http://allafrica.com/publishers.html?passed_name=The%20Monitor&passed_location=Kampala">The 
  >Monitor (Kampala)
  >
  >September 29, 2003
  >Posted to the web September 29, 2003
  >
  >Frank Nyakairu &agencies
  >Kampala
  >
  >The International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) has said that massacres in DR
  >Congo's Ituri region will continue unless the plundering is checked.
  >
  >"If we do not halt the cash flows, the crimes will not stop," a prosecutor 
  >at
  >ICT Mr Louis Moreno-Ocampo is quoted on the tribunal's official website. He
  >held a press conference at the Hague on Thursday.
  >
  >
  >Moreno-Ocampo reaffirmed the urgency of opening a judicial inquiry into the
  >war crimes and massacres perpetrated against the civil population in Ituri.
  >
  >According to the UN, the clashes in eastern DRC have claimed at least 5,000
  >lives and displaced over half a million people since 1999.
  >
  >Ocampo said his office had continued gathering and analysing information 
  >from
  >Ituri to determine whether there was justification to set up an inquiry
  >according to the Missionary News Agency-misna.
  >
  >He said he would soon write to the Assembly of the signatory nations of the
  >Rome Statute (which constituted the ICT in 1998) to inform them about his
  >proposal for an inquiry.
  >
  >"We hope to find African solutions to African problems and more generally 
  >the
  >DR-Congo," the head prosecutor added. Uganda and Rwanda are the two main
  >countries named in the Ituri crisis. They deny all accusations.
  >
  >The groups were militarily and financially supported by Uganda and Rwanda.
  >
  >Ituri is endowed with resources like Gold, Diamond, Coltan, and Hardwood
  >among others.
  >
  >Since July 2002, according to Rights Groups, at least five thousand people
  >have been killed in Ituri. A Human Rights Watch report published mid this 
  >year
  >insists that governments of Uganda, Rwanda and the DR. Congo are still 
  >arming
  >the warring groups.
  >
  >
  >

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