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Sudanese President Rejects Genocide Claims

AP photo / Abd Raouf

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir gestures to pro-government demonstrators outside a Cabinet meeting in Khartoum on Sunday.

Although an International Criminal Court prosecutor has accused Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of genocide in Darfur, Bashir begs to differ and Sudan is refusing to cooperate with the court. Meanwhile, some United Nations representatives are preparing to leave Sudan as concerns build about a potential violent backlash to the charge.

BBC:

Sudan’s ambassador to the UN, Abdalmahmood Abalhaleem Mohamad, told the BBC that Mr Bashir viewed the charges as a “political statement” and had no intention of co-operating with the ICC.

He criticised ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for indicting the president, whom he said had brought about a peace agreement to end Sudan’s civil war.

“It is a very irresponsible move, it will affect negatively the peace process in the country,” he said.

“It will have ramifications in the entire region. Our priority is peace in the country. Stopping bloodshed, making peace.”

Mr Mohamed told the Associated Press that the government was bolstering its military capability in case rebel forces were encouraged by the situation to attack Khartoum.

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By skulz fontaine, July 15, 2008 at 8:01 am #

The ICC is going after Omar al-Bashir. That’s nice. Golly, that entire Darfur/Sudan hypocrisy is so post 9/11 untrendy. The dying in Darfur has been going on for an interminably long time and NOW the ICC is going after Sudan’s president? Wow, George Clooney must finally be getting some traction. Maybe it was Mia Farrow’s threat to use Blackwater. Yeah, that must have been the trigger. Golly Ms. Mia, what in the hell are you thinking?
So as with all things United Nations, it’s just a little too little and a lot too late. What about Gaza? What about the West Bank? What about Lebanon? Iraq? Afghanistan? Why isn’t Tony Blair standing in the dock at that old International Criminal Court? John Howard? George Bush and the grand puppet master Dick ‘shotgun’ Cheney? Talk about war criminals! Genocide, mass murder, torture, wholesale violations of basic human decency, and those nasty little wars of naked aggression that are so internationally illegal. Ah, it’s always the same old lame crap. It ain’t what you do, it’s who you screw! The ICC is to put the screws to the president of Sudan and genuine and for reals war criminals wander our suffering little blue planet without recrimination. Yup, sounds about hypocritically correct.

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