International court seeks arrest warrant for Sudanese Defense Minister Hussein

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International court seeks arrest warrant for Sudanese Defense Minister Hussein

2011-12-03 08:42:43 GMT+7 (ICT)

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (BNO NEWS) -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday requested an arrest warrant to be issued against current Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein for crimes against humanity.

ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is seeking the warrant against Hussein for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004.

In a statement, the ICC said Hussein is one of those who bears the greatest criminal responsibility for the same crimes and incidents presented in previous warrants of arrest for Ahmed Harun and Ali Kushayb issued by the Court on April 27, 2007.

The attacks followed a common pattern in which Sudanese forces surrounded villages, the Air Force dropped bombs indiscriminately and foot soldiers, including Militia/Janjaweed, killed, raped and looted an entire village, forcing the displacement of 4 million inhabitants. Currently, the ICC noted, 2.5 million remain in camps for Internally Displaced Persons.

At the time, Hussein was Minister for the Interior for the Government of Sudan and Special Representative of the President in Darfur, with all of the powers and responsibilities of the President. He delegated some of his responsibilities to Harun, the Minister of State for the Interior, whom he appointed to head the 'Darfur Security Desk.'

"The evidence shows that this was a state policy supervised by Mr. Hussein to ensure the coordination of attacks against civilians," said Moreno-Ocampo. "Moreover, the evidence shows that directly and through Mr. Harun, Mr. Hussein played a central role in coordinating the crimes, including in recruiting, mobilizing, funding, arming, training and the deployment of the Militia/Janjaweed as part of the Government of the Sudan forces, with the knowledge that these forces would commit the crimes."

The attacks happened in the towns and villages of Kodoom, Bindisi, Mukjar and Arawala in the Wadi Salih and Mukjar Localities of West Darfur. Moreno-Ocampo considered that Hussein should be arrested in order to prevent him from continuing with the commission of crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court.

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[Steely Dan]

In the league of genocidal bastards the North Sudanese government are way out in front in the scale of their crimes. Will Sudan hand over their defense minister to the ICC? Not a chance in hell, their 'rationale' no doubt being that Sharia law is the only law they recognize as it comes straight from Allah as oppose to any man made law.

As an afterthought the Sudanese regime are actually far more deserving of being removed than the Libyan regime, but such is politics.