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on genocide charges, said on Saturday he has offered to help Libya integrate its dozens of militias into the country's armed forces.
"We have an experience in integrating rebels in a national army," said Bashir, whose visit to Libya drew criticism from human rights
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groups. "We have offered to help our brothers in Libya in building a national army that includes the components of the Libyan revolution. Our experts are available and our officers are available," he said. Bashir also said he had offered the new Libyan government help from Sudanese troops in protecting Libya's southern borders during the war that ended Muammar Qadaffy's
...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
rule but that his offer was declined.
Libya's new rulers are struggling to include thousands of former rebels who helped oust Qadaffy in a military and police force or in civilian jobs. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council, warned this week that Libya risks sliding into civil war unless it cracks down on rival militias which filled the vacuum left by Qadaffy's downfall.
The militias are vying with each other for influence, and believe that to ensure they receive their due share of political power they need to keep an armed presence in the capital. Abdul Jalil, who visited Khartoum in November, has said Sudanese weapons and ammunition helped Libya's former rebels oust Muammar Qadaffy last year and take control of the North African country. Relations between Khartoum and Tripoli were strained during Qadaffy's rule because of his support for rebels in Sudan's western Darfur region and in South Sudan, which gained independence in July under a 2005 peace deal.
Bashir said that the ousting of Qadaffy was "the best piece of news in Sudan's modern history." "We came here to thank the Libyan people for the gift they offered to the Sudanese people by removing Qadaffy," he said. Bashir's visit was criticised by rights groups. "Welcoming Bashir raises questions about the NTC's stated commitment to human rights and the rule of law," Richard Dicker, international justice director at Human Rights Watch
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, said in a statement.