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| Sudan may expel peacekeepers over al-Bashir warrant |
| 2008-07-27 |
| Sudan on Friday threatened to expel peacekeepers from Darfur if President Omar al-Bashir is indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). "We are telling the world that with the indictment of our president we can't be responsible for the well-being of foreign forces in Darfur," Bashir's adviser, Bona Malual, told reporters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. "After that we may ask them to withdraw from our territory," he added. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo accuses Bashir of personally instructing his forces to annihilate three non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur, masterminding murder, torture, pillaging and the use of rape to commit genocide. Last week, Moreno-Ocampo asked ICC judges to issue a warrant for Bashir's arrest. If granted, which could take several months, it would be the first issued by The Hague-based court against a sitting head of state. "We reject this indictment totally," Malual said. "We will not submit our president to any kind of questioning or answering to a body Sudan is not part of." |
| Posted by:Fred |