Justice for the World International Press Release
During the past two weeks, several sources have exclaimed that the Darfur government is set on sabotaging justice and have used different methods to obstruct the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir. These methods include creating confusion, intimidation and harassment. Justice for the World strongly condemns these tactics that aim to obstruct justice.
Voice of America reported that the Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi was arrested after stating that Mr. Bashir should turn himself in to the court to save Sudan from the sanctions and political turmoil that would follow if he continues to defy the court. Vice President Salva Kiir added to that that if a warrant is issued, Sudan's ruling party is likely to abandon the 2005 peace deal that ended the country's north-south civil war, leading to a constitutional crisis.
The ICC is currently in the process of deciding whether to issue the warrant, which was requested by prosecutors who accuse Mr. Bashir of war crimes in Darfur. Sudanese officials have in turn stated that Sudan is not a partaking member of this institution and thus refuse to cooperate with any of its investigations. Justice for the World deems this the only possibly legitimate and convincing argument presented so far on behalf of the Sudan government in place, but an argument which does not undo the genocide, and is purposefully intended to avoid responsibility.
The warrant whether to be 'accepted' or not, is apparently a source of concern after all for the accused offenders of crimes against humanity. We thus advice the international community and the organizations which are actively trying to solve this situation, to continue to look for alternatives in using international legal instruments to bring justice to the people of Sudan and to raise both concern and pressure, before the international community will consider more forceful and ambiguous means to bring an end to the inhumane suffering in Sudan. We advice the Sudan ruling party to reconsider its path of destruction.
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