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ICC Accuses Sudan President of Genocide

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | July 14, 2008 - 12:26

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has accused Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Dafur region of Sudan. This is the first indictment of a head of state by the ICC. Two other heads of state – Charles Taylor and Slobodan Milosevic – have been charged by international tribunals, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, respectively.

Three judges of the ICC will decide whether to issue an arrest warrant for Bashir. ICC judges have issued eleven arrest warrants requested in the past, so it is likely that Moreno-Ocampo’s request for a warrant on Bashir will be granted.

For more details, read the NYT article.


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