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Malawi threatens to withdraw from ICC over al-Bashir spat
2011-12-16
Malawi has threatened to withdraw from the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
Treaty after a dispute over its alleged failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
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Bashir is wanted by the court for genocide. The court has issued a warrant for his arrest and as a signatory to the Rome statute that created The Hague-based world court, Malawi was obligated to detain the Sudanese leader on its soil.

The Sudanese leader attended a Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) meeting the country hosted in October 2011.

Malawi's Information minister Patricia Kaliati said it was surprising that the ICC decided to report the country to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Security Council whereas it had not taken any action against some of the countries Bashir has visited in the past.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "Not fair! The ICC is supposed to harass only American and European infidels, not Muslims!"
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-12-16 08:52  

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