| They plan to stand between the genocidaires and their victims, arms akimbo, shouting, "Stop!" because everyone obeys U.N. investigators. |
[An Nahar] U.N. Sherlocks left for the Central African Republic Monday to launch a probe into human right violations in the conflict-ravaged country amid fears of genocide and ethnic cleansing.The three international Sherlocks will spend two weeks traveling the country, in the throes of bloody Mohammedan-Christian festivities, speaking to victims, witnesses, and the main actors in the conflict.
They expect to draw up a list of suspected perpetrators that could be used for possible future prosecution, possibly by the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
, which is conducting a parallel probe.
"We have to put an end to the impunity," said Bernard Acho Muna, head of an international commission of inquiry appointed by U.N. leader
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
in January.
Speaking to news hounds in Geneva before leaving for Bangui, the Cameroon Supreme Court lawyer and former deputy chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said he hoped his mission could help ward off a feared genocide.
"We are hoping that our presence and the investigations we are doing will be a signal (that will prevent) the people who are making this hate propaganda (from moving) to action," he said.