Sudan Leader Travels Despite Warrant

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Source: NYT

Flouting international demands for his arrest on genocide charges, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan arrived in Kenya on Friday to participate in a ceremony inaugurating the country’s newly minted constitution.

Mr. Bashir faces two arrest warrants: one issued in July by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on three counts of genocide and one from March 2009 for war crimes and crime against humanity. In theory the warrants could be enforced by any of the court’s member countries, which include Kenya.

The charges relate to the conflict in the western Darfur region of Sudan, where an estimated 300,000 people have died and more than two million have been uprooted by almost a decade of fighting between the government and rebels. Mr. Bashir denies the charges.

News reports said Mr. Bashir was escorted into Uhuru Park in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, by the minister of tourism, Najib Balala, to attend the ceremony marking the adoption of the new constitution, supposed to hasten democratic reform in Kenya, a nation generally depicted as pro-Western.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/world/africa/28sudan.html

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1. Stop letting this mass murderer loose and put him in jail already.

In other news, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the gang still get to live in luxury after having abetted in the deaths of 4,000+ American troops in an illegal war in Iraq and 100,000+ Iraqi citizens.