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Sudan Expels Kenyan Ambassador Over President Bashir's Arrest Warrant
[Tripoli Post] Following a Kenyan High Court ruling in Nairobi Monday and the issuing of an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
over alleged war crimes in Darfur, Sudan Tuesday recalled its ambassador to Kenya and expelled the Kenyan ambassador from Khartoum.

President Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the conflict-prone Darfur region, where a major humanitarian tragedy has unfolded in recent years.

The ruling came after Kenya allowed Mr Bashir, the first head of state to be indicted by the ICC, to visit in August in defiance of an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for his arrest.

The arrest warrant was issued by the High Court in Nairobi with Judge Nicolas Ombija declaring in his ruling that Mr Bashir's arrest "should be effected by the attorney general and the minister for internal security should he ever set foot in Kenya".

The ruling was made after a case was brought by a non-governmental organization, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).

Kenya is a signatory to the treaty which established the ICC in 2002, but like most African countries, it has refused to enforce the ICC warrant. Like most African countries, Kenya, as a member of the NaN,
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
has supported the African Union's argument that arresting Sudan's President would hamper the search for peace in Darfur.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony...
the Sudanese President, who recently saw his country split between the north and south due to the legacy of a violent civil war, says the charges against him are politically motivated.

Now Khartoum has ordered the Kenyan ambassador to leave the country within 72 hours, while the Sudanese ambassador to Nairobi has been recalled.

Malawi and Chad are among other African countries that Mr Bashir has visited in defiance of the arrest warrant.

More than 2.7 million people have decamped their homes since the conflict in Darfur began in 2003, with the United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
saying that about 300,000 have died - many from disease, a figure that is disputed by the Sudanese government.

Sudan's government says the conflict has killed about 12,000 people and the number of dead has been exaggerated for political reasons.

Posted by: Fred 2011-11-30
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