News Item: International Criminal Court Seeks to Arrest Omar al-Bashir

Posted on July 15, 2008

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, first prosecutor at the ICC, has requested an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. This action comes after decades of atrocities in Darfur and South Sudan masterminded by Bashir. The New York Times reports the full story here.

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