The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges yesterday against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur.
The AP reports that the this is the first time prosecutors of the ICC have issued charges against a sitting head of state. The changes that al-Bashir will be sent to the The Hague anytime soon are very slim.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked a three-judge panel at the ICC to issue an arrest warrant for al-Bashir accusing him of killing 35,000 people and displacing 2.5 million people forced from their homes in Darfur and still under attack from government-backed janjaweed militia.
“Genocide is a crime of intention we don’t need to wait until these 2.5 million die,” he told The Associated Press.
Here is an update since yesterday’s announcement:
- Iran says the news of the charge is “unpleasant” and they want have always supported the “legitimate” government of Sudan led by Bashir.
- The USA offered an ambivalent response to the charges against Sudan’s President
- Genocide charges don’t appear to be a threat to Omar al-Bashir. with support from the Arab and African world, Sudan’s president showed no signs of giving in to pressure.
- China expressed “concern” over the charges of Genocide as China now faces difficult choices over its relationship with Bashir and this in addition to the internation pressure China is feeling over the Beijing Olympics.
- China also urges the ICC to rethink the Sudan arrest warrent
- Some UN officias worry that the warrent will complicate the delicate peace processÂ
- Sudan is urging the UN Securty Council to block the prosecution of al-Bahir
- The Director of Human Rights Watch’s International Justice program says:
Charging President al-Bashir for the hideous crimes in Darfur shows that no one is above the law. It is the prosecutor’s job to follow the evidence wherever it leads, regardless of official position.
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I have studied the Sudanese regime since 1994. Since then, I have also studied Islam. So I’m sharing with you, here, some of the knowledge I’ve dug out.
Maybe most people don’t realize it, but this regime is illegitimate.
Sudan was a British Colony. When they left, they divided Sudan into two nations, Arabs in the North, indigenous blacks in the South. The British already knew the two were mortal enemies, and should NOT remain joined as one nation. It didn’t take the Arabs long, with their hefty armaments, to move in and conquer the pastoral black people of the south. The Arabs have no legitimate right to that land.
As for rape being a tool of genocide, it’s more so than people realize. Since the ’90’s, I’ve known of two official government programs: “Islamization” and “Arabization.” You can Google them yourself. Islamization is what it says: conversion by the sword. It has been allowed in Islam since the first time Muhammad himself converted by the sword. It is still allowed; the Pope was not lying about that. EVERY Muslim knows this is so. What they do NOT want is for US to know it. That’s why they rioted and killed over the Pope’s comment. They were, in effect, saying, “How dare you call our “great global religion of peace and tolerance” violent? We’ll kill you for saying so!” Dohhh.
Arabization is even more fun. It is to dilute the black gene pool with Arab genes, by rape. Do this for a few generations, and there’ll be no more blacks at all, just people with an extremely small amount of black genes, people who have become, essentially, Arabs by blood, even though, of course, they’d still never be acceptable among other Arabs. And meanwhile, what FUN for their troops! Whee.
And along with the raping goes the killing of black males, so there will be fewer and fewer of them able to engender more pure black babies.
Genocide through rape. Simple as that. And it is an official program of the Sudan. So WHY isn’t the press telling us that? They surely know about it. What happened to “the people’s right to know,” anyway? Maybe it’s time you all began getting a bit testy with our media over their gross negligence of “the people’s right to know.” Keeping headline news from us for 20 years isn’t exactly good journalism, folks.
I imagine Mr. Ocampo will have evidence on “Arabization” for Bashir’s trial, if they can ever get that pusbag to the Hague. If they don’t, why don’t they?
One more thing, unrelated to the indictment. Sudan is doing genocide in Darfur. Most people think the genocide started only a couple of years ago. The press and governments - ALL of them in the free world for the past 20 YEARS, have been keeping the knowledge of the FIRST genocide from us all. They allowed the killing with words, by calling it a “civil war” instead of a genocide. We were NEVER told the truth. ALL governments and major media in the free world fully knew about that first genocide, and ALL chose not to tell us. What does that say about our free press?
Now, it’s too late for them to admit it, so they treat Darfur as though it occurred in a vacuum, when in reality it is only Chapter 2 of an ongoing genocide that began in the mid-80’s.
And that first genocide made Darfur look like a day at Disneyland.
In Darfur, they have to be more careful. Other northern Arabs might object to the regime slaughtering Muslims, you see. So they used a surrogate, janjaweed, to deflect their true culpability. In the first genocide, that wasn’t needed.
Starting in the mid-80’s, troop units would enter a southern village, herd all the people into their own thatched cattle-byres, then set them, the village, their crops and livestock, alight. Then on to the next village for the glory of Allah. Southern blacks have rejected conversion to Islam for centuries and they loathe it. So the troops killed them with impunity.
If THAT isn’t genocide, someone tell me what IS.
There are reams of documentary evidence at Amnesty Int’l about this. Check it out for yourself.
First genocide Stats: 2.5 m illion dead and countless injured, starved, enslaved and displaced.
And the world knew it was going on, but wouldn’t let US know about it. For TWO DECADES.
To our everlasting shame.
If anyone has standing to do a regime change in Sudan, it is the other Islamic States. They have not even criticized Sudan, much less threatened them with corrective measures. Which means that, to the Islamic world, the Sudanese genocide is as fine as paint, and why should anyone be criticizing righteous Muslims who are serving Allah?
If anyone has any doubt that Arabs are the most racist people on the planet, their silence over this genocide proves it beyond doubt. Black skin, to Arabs, is only worth living in servitude, to themselves, of course, as slaves. Otherwise, they’re better dead. This is the attitude toward blacks throughout the Arab/Muslim world. Always has been. It was they, remember, who invented the slave trade in the first place. They still do it. Slavery is A-Okay in Islam, particularly to Arab/Muslims. Blacks can convert, but are never fully human, regardless. Why ANY black person could consider embracing Islam is a real head-scratcher. They’re converted, of course, through lies, i.e., they get “wazooed” into converting. If they knew the realities of Arabs and Muslims, they’d run from Islam, screaming…
Because they did nothing, that left us with two choices: either deal with it ourselves, or do nothing. We chose the latter. But “we the people” weren’t allowed to have any say about it. They chose to do nothing because they thought we wouldn’t want to be bothered over the slaughter of a bunch of black natives on the other side of the world that nobody knew anything about anyway. And they were probably right - at least about the majority of the public in the free world.
But not ALL. By keeping a genocide quiet, through the simple expedient of renaming it as a “civil war,” it became an internal matter for Sudan to deal with, rather than an international matter of grave importance. Now you know that words really CAN kill. If Darfur is genocide, and the first one was worse, how can the first one NOT be genocide? Do your own checking out at Amnesty Int’l. And Google can help, too.
And are we, even NOW, being told of the first genocide? No. The free world media and governments treat Darfur as though there’d never been anything like that going on in the Sudan till Darfur started up. That’s a flat LIE. It’s as though they’re saying the 2.5 MILLION who died earlier never existed, or never died. How’d you like it if our governments and media kept us in the dark for 20 years about a genocide in, say, S. America? Or somewhere in Europe or Asia? Where’s the difference here? Genocide is genocide, no matter who’s doing it or to whom it’s being done. And genocide is the worst “BAD” there IS.
If we’d done the right thing and stopped this heinous, obscene regime back in the ’80’s, it’s just possible we might not have had to face other genocides, like Rwanda, Bosnia, Myanmar, N. Korea, Zimbabwe, etc. One successful genocide ALWAYS encourages more of them.
And that’s precisely what the world GOT.
I’d strongly suggest that the public do its OWN homework, and catch up on the real truth about Sudan, before forming opinions. If they do that, they’ll be horrified, but of what good is staying ignorant of reality, except to make us more vulnerable? Is it worth it to embrace a warm-fuzzy notion of reality? Did our governments and media have any right AT ALL to decide that we didn’t need to know about that genocide?
You can learn, for yourself, that everything I’m saying here is true. So get busy.
And you might want to consider ASKING our free world governments and media for their explanation as to WHY they kept us in the dark for 20 YEARS over this first genocide. They have a whole LOT of explaining to do. Make them. Without free and objective media, how much is our liberty worth? It’s kind of important, y’know.
Now, at least, al Bashir is indicted. That’s something. Not much, though, till they can get their hands on him. And that’ll take military action. Before doing that, we’d have to know how to handle the aftermath. That’s a serious project to undertake, too, involving separating north and south properly again, then preventing the Arabs from moving in on them again. It can be done, but must be thoroughly planned for before beginning military action.
I have a yahoo site, called stop genocide, with an underscore between the two words. Use “Sudan” in the subject line to distinguish from spam. I want to get as many people as possible talking about the REALITIES of this situation. In other words, doing something that our OWN media and governments have failed miserably to do.