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Sudan's Bashir defies court with Chad trip
[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in Chad on Wednesday, his first visit to a full member state of the International Criminal Court demanding his arrest for genocide.Bashir was indicted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur last year. This month the court added genocide to the charges, accusing him of presiding over rape, torture and murder in the remote west of Sudan. The ICC said that as a member state Chad was obliged to arrest Bashir. Bashir was greeted by Chadian President Idriss Deby on his first trip abroad since the genocide warrant. Since his initial indictment, Bashir has made several trips abroad in defiance of the court. "My presence in N'djamena bears witness to our wish to turn the page after the differences between our two countries," he told journalists at the airport. "We are in a new phase of the history of our two countries, in the interests of our two peoples," said Bashir, in Chad to take part in a meeting on Thursday of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD). Posted by: Fred 2010-07-22 |
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