Omar al-Bashir ,Sudanese president charged with Darfur genocide-Arrest warrant issued

Hague court issues arrest warrant for Sudanese president, adding international pressure to further isolate regime
Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, is accused of trying to wipe out three non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur


The international criminal court has charged Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, with three counts of genocide in Darfur, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.

He is accused of trying to wipe out three non-Arab ethnic groups in the region, where more than 200,000 people have died since 2003.

The arrest warrant said there were "reasonable grounds to believe" Sudanese forces attempted genocide against the Darfur tribal groups Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa.

The ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, accuses Bashir of keeping 2.5 million refugees in Darfur in camps "under genocide conditions, like a gigantic Auschwitz".

Last year the court charged Bashir with war crimes over the conflict in Darfur, making him the first sitting head of state issued with an arrest warrant by the ICC.

Judges then dismissed the prosecution's most contentious charge of genocide.

Four months ago an appeals panel ruled that judges made an "error in law" when they refused to indict Bashir on international law's gravest charge.

Prosecutors then filed their case again and on today judges issued an arrest warrant charging Bashir with three counts of genocide.

This is a good development,I hope the prosecution will be carried out to the very details,thousand children soldiers have become miscreants in Sudan.
"The evil that some men do lives with them".

Unfortunately, AU which should help hand this man over for trial or severe diplomatic ties with him is shielding him!

Somehow I don't blame Chad,it is Un African to do what the ICCP request,they should try others means.