On July 14, the ICC prosecutor, Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for orchestrating the atrocities in Darfur. Immediately after the announcement, Sudan’s government and its allies began a diplomatic campaign aimed at securing a Security Council deferral of the investigations for 12 months.
打击有罪不罚现象的运动是否能继续取得进展还是倒退，现在取决于联合国安全理事会。 7月14日，国际刑事法院的检察官、阿根廷律师路易斯·莫雷诺奥坎波宣布，他正在寻求逮捕苏丹总统巴希尔的逮捕令，因为他策划了在达尔富尔的暴行。此项宣布之后，，苏丹政府和其盟国立即开始了外交活动，目的是让安理会的调查推迟12个月。它们正在得到比本应得到的更大的支持 - 部分原因是因为人们害怕联合国维和人员和人道主义工作者受到报复。