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Hague court issues warrant for Sudan's Bashir
Thu Mar 5, 2009 12:42am EST
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur, a decision that could spark more regional turmoil.
The warrant is the first issued against a sitting head of state by the Hague-based ICC, which stopped short of including a count of genocide over a conflict that United Nations officials say has killed as many as 300,000 people since 2003.
International reaction to Wednesday's ICC decision was mixed. The United States welcomed the action but China urged the U.N. Security Council Thursday to heed calls from African and Arab countries and suspend the case against Bashir.
The ICC, set up in 2002, indicted Bashir on seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which included murder, rape and torture. The three-judge panel said it had insufficient grounds for genocide.
"His victims are the very civilians that he as a president was supposed to protect," ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told reporters, adding that Sudan was obliged to execute the warrant. "It could be in two months or two years, but he will face justice."
Hundreds of demonstrators protested against the arrest warrant in central Khartoum. Bashir, 65, has dismissed the allegations made by the ICC, the world's first permanent court for prosecuting war crimes, as part of a Western conspiracy.
"It is a flawed decision," said Sudanese presidential spokesman Mahjoub Fadul. "We do not recognize it."
Hours after the warrant was issued, Sudan revoked the licenses of at least six foreign aid agencies, giving no reason for the decision, aid officials said. "This will have a major impact on humanitarian work in Darfur," said one aid official.
U.N. and other agencies are running the world's largest humanitarian operation in Darfur, a mainly desert region in western Sudan. U.N. officials say up to 300,000 have been killed there, while Khartoum says 10,000 have died.
A further 2.7 million people are estimated to have been uprooted by the conflict, which began when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the government in 2003.
U.N. officials said hundreds of government troops paraded through the regional capital El Fasher in a show of strength.
QATAR SUMMIT
Sudan's under-secretary of foreign affairs, Mutrif Siddiq, said Bashir planned to attend an Arab summit in Qatar later this month despite the warrant.
The ICC said it expected enforcement of the arrest warrant by countries party to the Rome Statute that set up the court and United Nations member nations.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters: "Governments and individuals who either conduct or condone atrocities of any kind, as we have seen year after year in Sudan, have to be held accountable." Continued...
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