Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir fr

Omar  Hassan  Ahmad  al-Bashir is the current president of Sudan. On 14 July 2008, the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) presented evidence to the Court of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. Pre-Trial Chamber I will consider whether to issue a Warrant of Arrest against Al-Bashir.

The Prosecution claims that there are reasonable grounds to believe that al-Bashir bears criminal responsibility for the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Prosecution claims that President al-Bashir masterminded and implemented a plan to destroy a substantial part of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups in Sudan. In its case against the Sudanese President, the Prosecution claims that forces controlled by al-Bashir have used rape, torture, and forced displacement against the target groups to deliberately inflict conditions of life “calculated to bring about their physical destruction”.  The case refers crimes alleged to have been committed from March 2003 until 14 July 2008.

The situation in Darfur was originally referred to the the Prosecutor by the United Nations Security Council on 31 March 2005 in Resolution 1593. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to have a case brought against him by the Prosecutor in the ICC.

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