Sudan Leader To Be Charged With Genocide

Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir

From The Washington Post:

Sudan Leader To Be Charged With Genocide

UNITED NATIONS, July 10 -- The chief prosecutor of the Internationals Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the nation's Darfur region during the past five years, according to U.N. officials and diplomats.

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More News On Sudan

The Pursuit of Justice vs. the Pursuit of Peace -- New York Times
ICC to seek arrest of Sudan president -- RTE
UN officials fear reprisals over ‘indictment’ of President Bashir -- Kenya Today
Sudan President To Be Indicted -- Channel 4
Backlash fears as Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, faces genocide indictment -- Times Online
War Crimes Indictments Threaten The Peace -- Strategy Page
TIMELINE - Conflict in Sudan's Darfur -- Reuters

My Comment: After years of war, ethnic cleansing, murder .... (I can spend all night writing down a list of things that Sudan has done) .... the International Community has decided to call something that has been going on and on and on.

For China, the timing could not be worse. Just weeks before the Olympics is to begin and where image is everything for the Chinese .... they now have this. To veto a war crime resolution against a war criminal.

But what bugs me .... is that it is the refugees who suffer. And while politicians and diplomats talk about all the great work that they are doing .... they are actually doing nothing on the ground.