04.07.2009 - African Union ministers end cooperation with criminal court on Sudan
After bitter wrangling, the leaders of the 53-member African
Union have agreed to denounce the International Criminal Court
in the Hague and defy the arrest warrant FIFA pondering free tickets to boost Confed Cup attendance ...
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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir.
In a debate that cast the ICC in the role of a toothless stooge of
ex-colonial powers, the AU leaders voted not to cooperate in the
arrest and transfer of Sudan's president to the ICC.
They argued that the indictment and arrest warrant for war
crimes committed during fighting in Sudan's Darfur region could
compromise peace efforts in Darfur.
Several countries were not happy with the final document.
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki is chairing an AU panel
responsible for bringing peace to Darfur by making recommendations
to the AU's Peace and Security Council, as an alternative to the
ICC indictment.
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According to international experts, 200,000 people have died and
more than 2.5 million have been driven from their homes in the
country's remote western region since mostly non-Arab rebels took
up arms against the government in 2003.
Khartoum puts the death toll at just 10,000.
Prior to the decision, New York-based campaign group Human Rights
Watch said that if the AU approved the draft resolution, the 30
African states who have signed up to the ICC would be violating
their legal obligations.
Meanwhile, it became known that armed men have seized two female
aid workers, one Irish and one Ugandan, in Sudan's Darfur region.
It is the third kidnapping of foreign aid workers in the territory
in the past four months.
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Editor: Kateri Jochum
(Deutsche Welle)
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