The International Criminal Court in The Hague will be seeking to place an arrest warrant on Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for charges of war crimes.
It is alleged that
al-Bashir is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his nation's residents in the Darfur region over the past five years. The official charges are genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence.
Some within the United Nations are concerned the plans for the arrest warrant will complicate the peace process triggering a military response by Sudanese forces endangering the nearly 10,000 U.N. and African Union peacekeepers in Darfur. On Thursday seven peacekeepers were killed and 22 wounded during an ambush by an unidentified armed group. The group had obvious training.
The ambassador to the UN from Sudan, Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad has warned that if an arrest warrant does go out it will destroy all international efforts to reach a peace settlement in the region.
Arrest Warrant Planned To Be Issued For Omar Hassan al-Bashir On Monday
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