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DATELINE: 05 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
05 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“The last six months since I presented my last report to this Council have been six months of misery, six months of torment, a terrible six months for the people of Darfur.”
4. Wide shot, Khan addressing Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“Many credible, credible reports of rapes, crimes against and affecting children, persecution on a mass scale inflicted against the most vulnerable civilians in Sudan, and certainly the most vulnerable people in Darfur. Terror has become a common currency. And the terror is not felt by the people with guns and with weapons, but it's as felt by people who are running very often with nothing on their feet. People Hungry.”
6. Wide shot, Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“We have somehow forgotten of the responsibilities under the UN Charter that rest with this Council by dint of your declaration in 2005 that the situation represents a threat to international peace and security. This feeling that Darfur is a law free zone in which people can act with abandon, based upon the worst proclivities, their worst base instincts, the politics of hate and power, the opportunities to profit rather than the fundamental imperatives that we owe to each other based on our common humanity.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Khan, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC):
“To those on the ground today in Darfur, I am addressing both the Sudanese armed forces and the rapid support forces, to those that are aiding and abetting them, that are encouraging them, that are funding them, that are supplying them with weapons, that are giving orders, that are gaining certain advantages, I want to be crystal clear that we are investigating. We're using our resources as effectively as we can to make sure that the events also since April of last year, are subjected to the principles of international humanitarian law and the imperative that every human life must be seen to have equal value.”
10. Wide shot, Sudan Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed addressing Council
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sudan:
“The commitment by the armed forces to its right to self-defence, to reduce the casualties, and give early warnings to civilians or to get away from areas under confrontation, and to avoid targeting civilian objects. This game, despite the fact that the militia and its allies have occupied the homes of citizens and forced foreigners to deport.”
12. Wide shot, end of Council session
Briefing the Security Council on Sudan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, today (3 Aug) said, “we have somehow forgotten of the responsibilities under the UN Charter that rest with this Council by dint of your declaration in 2005 that the situation represents a threat to international peace and security.”
Khan said, “the last six months since I presented my last report to this Council have been six months of misery, six months of torment, a terrible six months for the people of Darfur.”
He said, “many credible, credible reports of rapes, crimes against and affecting children, persecution on a mass scale inflicted against the most vulnerable civilians in Sudan, and certainly the most vulnerable people in Darfur. Terror has become a common currency. And the terror is not felt by the people with guns and with weapons, but it's as felt by people who are running very often with nothing on their feet. People Hungry.”
Khan told the Council that there was a “feeling that Darfur is a law free zone in which people can act with abandon, based upon the worst proclivities, their worst base instincts, the politics of hate and power, the opportunities to profit rather than the fundamental imperatives that we owe to each other based on our common humanity.”
“To those on the ground today in Darfur,” he said, “I am addressing both the Sudanese armed forces and the rapid support forces, to those that are aiding and abetting them, that are encouraging them, that are funding them, that are supplying them with weapons, that are giving orders, that are gaining certain advantages, I want to be crystal clear that we are investigating. We're using our resources as effectively as we can to make sure that the events also since April of last year, are subjected to the principles of international humanitarian law and the imperative that every human life must be seen to have equal value.”
Sudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, for his part said, “the commitment by the armed forces to its right to self-defence, to reduce the casualties, and give early warnings to civilians or to get away from areas under confrontation, and to avoid targeting civilian objects. This game, despite the fact that the militia and its allies have occupied the homes of citizens and forced foreigners to deport.”
According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) active conflict and worsening flooding continue to fuel misery across Sudan, including in North Darfur.
On Saturday, fighting in the state capital El Fasher reportedly displaced nearly 2,000 people from the Al Salam camp. The Famine Review Committee warned last week that famine conditions are likely prevalent in Al Salam camp.
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