PROFILE: “The Don Quixote of Darfur,” by Romesh Ratnesar, Time, 12 November 2007, p. 30.
Very inspiring profile of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He’s salivating to bring Sudanese officials to trial on war crime charges. He’s going to be the star of a Darfur-focused documentary coming out. He gets standing ovations when he appears. He’s sat down with Brad and Angelina, our celebrity royalty on Africa.
What Luis Moreno-Ocampo doesn’t have is anybody in custody. Warrants, yes, but custody no.
Says Juan Mendez of the International Center for Transnational Justice:
“If he ends up only producing two or three trials and has 20 outstanding warrants, the appetite for international criminal justice will fade away completely.
That’s why I argue for some sort of A-to-Z rule set on processing political bankruptcy in the Gap. Gotta string together the players. No sense in fielding PayPal if you ain’t selling anything. The A-to-Z could be the service-oriented judicial architecture for processing bad actors inside the Gap, but it’ll never achieve critical mass unless you connect the ICC to some actual capabilities.
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