Omar al-Bashir has angrily rejected the arrest warrant issued by the ICC against him.
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Mr Bashir told thousands of cheering supporters in the capital that Sudan would not "kneel" to colonialists. He said he defied outsiders to come to Sudan and talk about human rights. Mr Bashir, 65, told a rally in the city's Martyrs Square: "We are telling the colonialists we are not succumbing; we are not submitting; we will not kneel; we are targeted because we refuse to submit." Sudan reacted to Wednesday's ICC indictment by expelling 10 foreign aid agencies, including Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and Medecins Sans Frontieres from Darfur.Between them they supply food and water to some 1.5 million people who have fled their homes during the six-year conflict. The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones in Khartoum says pro-Bashir supporters, some in cars with loud-speakers, shouted slogans denouncing the West. Mr Bashir said the ICC, together with the UN Security Council and the International Monetary Fund, were trying to "colonise people anew and steal their resources".
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abbym0308
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This is probably not the reaction that people were hoping for. Now the poor people who have suffered through this mess over the years are being further victimized. I hope they arrest him and re-instate the aid agencies as soon as possible.
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