On 24 January the UN publishes its investigative report into crimes commited in Darfur (Sudan). It is predicted that the report will recommend that the Security Council request the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take up the case. After opening investigations in Uganda and Congo, prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo received a letter from President Bozizé on 21 December asking him to investigate crimes committed «anywhere on the territory of the Central African Republic». On 7 January, Ocampo announced that he will be opening preliminary investigations. In February 2003, the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) had already requested the court to investigate «several hundred rapes, summary executions and systematic pillaging *committed+ during the attempted coup d\'etat by General Bozizé in October 2002». Today, FIDH stresses the need to prosecute as much the «rebels» as the «loyalists», and cites a ruling handed down by the Bangui Appeals Court dated 16 December 2004, which states that «crimes of blood, rape, murder... following the events of 2002 attributed to *former president+ Ange-Félix Patassé, Jean-Pierre Mbemba and his men, Paul Barril *...+ fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC».