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BBC reporting today:
"Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has angrily rejected the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against him. 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.
He is accused of two counts of war crimes and five of crimes against humanity in Darfur, in the first ICC warrant for a serving head of state.
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."BBC reporting today:
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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".Mr Bashir told thousands of cheering supporters in the capital that Sudan would not... more
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The International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.
Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be charged by the permanent war crimes court.
Bashir is charged with seven counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The warrant does not mention genocide, but the court may issue an amended warrant to include that charge later, ICC spokeswoman Laurence Blairon said.
Five counts are for crimes against humanity and include murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture, and rape, Blairon said. The other two are for war crimes, for intentionally directing attacks against civilians and for pillaging.
The indictment against al-Bashir marks the first time prosecutors at the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal have issued charges against a sitting head of state.
The violence in Darfur erupted in 2003 after rebels began an uprising against the Sudanese government. To counter the rebels, Sudanese authorities armed and cooperated with Arab militias that went from village to village in Darfur, killing, torturing and raping residents there, according to the United Nations, Western governments and human rights organizations. The militias targeted civilian members of tribes from which the rebels drew strength.
Its about time he was prosecuted... Discuss!
-Shallowside887The International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for... more
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I wanted to believe the man in front of me wasn't a rapist. I knew he was a former Sudanese soldier, I knew he wanted to talk about rape in Darfur. A humanitarian group working on Darfur issues had introduced him to us. They told us his testimony was important to hear.
Last year in Darfur aid workers told me children as young as five were being raped in the huge displacement camps that are home to several million Darfuris. In some camps, they told me, rape had become so common that as many as 20 babies a month born from rape were being abandoned.
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This is very sad and disturbing. This is a world issue that has been ignored for way too long. We can not keep turning a blind eye to the atrocities going on in DarfurI wanted to believe the man in front of me wasn't a rapist. I knew he was a... more
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The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. He is the first sitting head of state the court has ordered arrested.The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese... more
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April is Genocide prevention Month and the organization SAVEDARFUR is asking supporters to get out the word with nationwide grassroots events.
The situation in Darfur is tragic- hundreds of thousands of Darfuris have been killed and over 2 million people have been displaced from their homes.
With the impending arrest warrant for President Bashir (expected Wednesday) this is a turning point for Sudan.
SAVEDARFUR is asking people to host/attend Genocide Prevention Month "Act Now for Darfur" events the weekend of April 17th.April is Genocide prevention Month and the organization SAVEDARFUR is asking... more
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George Clooney says he has urged the Obama administration to step up U.S. efforts to solve the humanitarian crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur.
The Academy Award-winning actor met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House Monday to brief them on his recent trip to refugee camps on the Sudanese-Chadian border.George Clooney says he has urged the Obama administration to step up U.S. efforts to... more
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The leader of the most powerful rebel group in Darfur ( Justice and Equality Movement) said that his forces will redouble their efforts to topple the Sudanese Government the moment an international arrest warrant is issued against President al-Bashir.The leader of the most powerful rebel group in Darfur ( Justice and Equality Movement)... more
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"Sudan's justice minister has announced the release of 24 detainees involved in the country's raging Darfur conflict, following a
similar move by rebels.
Abdel-Basset Sabdarat's announcement comes after the rebel Justice and Equality Movement released 21 government soldiers.
JEM and the government held talks last week and agreed to eventually announce a ceasefire and exchange prisoners ahead of peace negotiations.
The talks were hosted by Qatar, whose leader arrived in Sudan on Saturday.
Fighting erupted in 2003 when ethnic African rebels revolted against the Arab-dominated central government they accused of neglect.
Some 300,000 people have died and another 2.7 million have been displaced.""Sudan's justice minister has announced the release of 24 detainees involved... more
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NBC's Ann Curry travels to the Darfur region with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof and actor George Clooney.
Curry writes in a blog that in a refugee camp on the Chad side, a school house is named after President Barack Obama.
That's George Clooney above taking photos of Darfurian children. The children have no idea Clooney is a movie star, all they know is he's fun and that he's trying to help them.NBC's Ann Curry travels to the Darfur region with New York Times columnist Nick... more
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The Sudanese government is preparing to hold peace talks with rebels in Darfur. The six-year-long conflict has killed an estimated 600,000 people, and Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir faces genocide charges.The Sudanese government is preparing to hold peace talks with rebels in Darfur. The... more
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It’s been a few years now since we decided that it was a Good Idea to check out some camps for Darfur refugees to try to figure out what exactly was going on in that particular slow-motion apocalypse, so we begged for money, shopped for body armor, got an impressive array of immunizations, bought a bad-ass first aid kit, hit up anyone we could for advice and headed out to Darfur (or at least right next to Darfur) to make a movie and figure this whole thing out.
So, now that we’re back and we’ve finished our movie, it’s time to ask what the rest of the world has accomplished in Darfur in the meantime. As far as we can tell, it looks like just about everyone has decided to be Very Deeply Concerned about Darfur. In a surprisingly effective global effort, the international community has produced copious amounts of concern, circumspection and caring. So much, in fact, that roughly 14.8 metric tons of concern per day is being produced for each refugee camp, along with more than 140 liters of circumspection and 6.7 bushels of caring per annum for each and every refugee, war widow, internally displaced person, and so on.
Just kidding!!! The international community has produced nowhere near that amount of caring or concern and, in any case, even if the world were that concerned, it still wouldn’t matter a single bit.
Even with the avalanche of press attention, celebrity public-service announcements, diplomatic notes, Congressional junkets, international condemnation, well-intentioned and occasionally baffling protests, heady conferences, solemn books and magazine articles, and a bewildering array of conflict resolution efforts, negotiations, and peace talks, it doesn’t look like much of anything has actually been done to actually stop a murderous tinpot dictator with an inexplicable desire to acquire some exceedingly desolate real estate using a impressive collection of remarkably brutal genocidal tactics.
(Click the link to read the rest of G. Ryan Faith's piece)It’s been a few years now since we decided that it was a Good Idea to check out... more
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A Sudanese man, Mohammed Alsary Ibrahim has been convicted of spying, criminal conspiracy and passing on confidential military documents about a Sudanese minister.
Mr Ibrahim, now serving 17 years, was found with papers linking the Sudanese government officials and the Janjaweed together in allowing / causing the Darfur atrocities.
One of the Sudanese government officials linked with the document is Ahmed Haroun. He is wanted by the ICC who issued an arrest warrant for him on 51 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity including rape and murder of civilians, but Sudan have refused to hand him over.
It is thought that the evidence would be enough to get him handed over to the global court.
To add to the tensions, the ICC are currently considering whether to indict President Bashir on 10 counts of genocide and other charges in Darfur, after prosecutors asked for an arrest warrant in July 2008.
The UN estimates that up to 2.7 million people have been forced from their homes in Darfur and some 300,000 have died during nearly six years of conflict.
How can we help? And why does the process of negotiations take so long when atrocities are happening right now?A Sudanese man, Mohammed Alsary Ibrahim has been convicted of spying, criminal... more
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A Sudanese man has been jailed for 17 years for passing on sensitive files about a Darfur war crimes suspect to the ICC.
Mohammed Alsary Ibrahim was found guilty at a trial in the capital Khartoum, of spying, criminal conspiracy and passing on confidential military documents about a Sudanese minister.
The suspect in question, Ahmed Haroun is wanted by the ICCfor alleged war crimes in the region.A Sudanese man has been jailed for 17 years for passing on sensitive files about a... more
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Khartoum puts the death toll at 10,000, which is bad enough, but I think a bit short of the real death toll. International experts say it's more like 200,000, which sounds about right.Khartoum puts the death toll at 10,000, which is bad enough, but I think a bit short... more
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It has been observed that the up-and-coming generation of young people are more socially conscious than their spoiled Baby Boomer parents and their SUV-driving, yuppified older siblings.
This new generation is keyed into world affairs and world suffering and is doing something about it. They march against the War in Darfur; they do fund drives for AIDS Orphans; and they largely vote for candidates who pledge to recruit the government (i.e. the taxpayer) to solve these problems.It has been observed that the up-and-coming generation of young people are more... more
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How long before justice? Darfur is the forgotten genocide. It's people part of a conspiracy to deny them land, food, water, and freedom, all once again for the sake of geo-political gain. Their villages pillaged and burned to the ground. Their women raped. Children dying of starvation, malnutrition and other diseases. Warlords ruling the land at the behest of those political leaders who use them as pawns in securing oil for foreign countries like China.
And yet, where is the media coverage of this horror? Over 2.5 million people displaced and most people don't even bat an eye. Hundreds of thousands murdered, and the media is now silent.The term genocide has been used to describe what is being done there and yet it seems to be accepted now.
The only justice we can see now is for Al -Bashir to be arrested for crimes against humanity. There does not seem to be a military solution to this and politically those who have too much of a $$$$ stake in his continuing on as president cannot be objective.
And while I am outraged about what is happening in Gaza, I wish that what is still happening in Darfur was given as much media attention now. So many people all over the world being subjugated by greed, religious intolerance, political expediency, and the quest for control of resources at any cost. I say we erect a very long table at the International Criminal Court and seat them all together. The leaders of Sudan, Israel, Hamas, Al Qaeda, the U.S, and any other country or group involved in or supplying weapons to these places to continue the horrors we now see for their gain. Now that would be justice.How long before justice? Darfur is the forgotten genocide. It's people part of a... more
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The United States announced today that an immediate airlifting of vehicles and equipment would be sent to Darfur to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis that is rapidly deteriorating.
President Bush waived protocol for a 15 day wait mandated by Congress due to what Stephen Hadley, national security adviser quoted saying, "because failing to do so would pose a substantial risk to human health and welfare."
More "direct" military involvement by the United States is viewed by the Bush administration as a bad option. It would only worsen the situation for the very people we are trying to save," said Hadley.
I support support for Darfur and the genocide and the coexistence between Sudanese Christians and Sudanese Arab-Muslims, but I have to ask- The U.S. is having a rocky time with our own economy and well-being, where does the funding come from for operations such as this? Maybe we should allocate more for our own infrastructure?
Thoughts.The United States announced today that an immediate airlifting of vehicles and... more
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