August 18, 2008
The ICC and the "female factor"
A nice bit of old-school reporting from today's Sudan Tribune. 'Woman judges man' is clearly the new 'man bites dog'.
Female judges to determine the fate of Sudan president
Sudan Tribune 18/08/08...The unique aspects of Al-Bashir’s case don’t stop here. All the judges of the Pre-Trial Chamber I happen to be females consisting of Akua Kuenyehia from Ghana, Sylvia Steiner from Brazil and Anita Usacka from Latvia.
...The female factor also arises in the application by the ICC’s prosecutor against the Sudanese president. Ocampo alleged that rape in Darfur “has been committed systematically and continuously for 5 years”.
The italics are mine but might as well be theirs.
Posted by aheavens at August 18, 2008 7:04 AM