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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir announced today that 10 foreign aid agencies had been expelled, in his first public response to the International Criminal Court's call for his arrest on war crimes charges.
The arrest warrant issued yesterday for atrocities in Sudan's western Darfur region is the first against a sitting head of state by the Hague-based ICC.
"We will act as a responsible government," Bashir told a meeting of top politicians and cabinet members in response to the arrest warrant, while adding that Sudan would act decisively against anyone threatening stability.
"We have expelled 10 foreign organisations ... after monitoring activities that act in contradiction to all regulation and laws," he said.
China urged the UN Security Council today to heed calls from African and Arab countries and suspend the case against Bashir, but the United States has welcomed the action.
The ICC, set up in 2002, indicted Bashir on seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which included murder, rape and torture. The three-judge panel said it had insufficient grounds for genocide.
Hours after the warrant was issued, Sudan revoked the licences of several foreign aid agencies.
UN and other agencies are running the world's largest humanitarian operation in Darfur, a mainly desert region in western Sudan. International experts say at least 200,000 people have been killed there, while Khartoum says 10,000 have died.
A further 2.7 million people are estimated to have been uprooted by the conflict, which began when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the government in 2003.
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How about those who bomb women and children? no justice for them?
Israel was built on native Palestinians corpses AND has been occupying, torturing, brutalising and killing Palestinian children since its creation in 1948, very soon after the Holocaust. If Jews hate Arabs, why live next to them. No Arab country wants Israel to be next to them except a couple of Arab dictators who are creepy crawly to the Zionist for few Dollars. They have sold their country to the Zionists and that is the King of Jordan and the Egyptian president who shake hands soaked in blood. The Holocaust gave a carte blanche to the Jews to do whatever they want and get away with it. Why did the Jews never ever take revenge and create the state of Israel in Germany? Instead they go and brutalise their cousins in blood, that is the Arabs. Israel is the cancer of the Middle East that has poisoned relations between the Muslim world and the West since its creation in 1948.
And to those Jewish commentators on this forum, don't become nasty and swear at me because of something I said. This country thrives in freedom of expression only when it suits the Zionists and calls it inciting hatred when it comes to Muslim opinions.
Yes you are right, 2 wrongs don't make it right but why only Muslims who seem to face justice?
It seems to me that it is almost impossible to bring any leader to justice over atrocities committed when they are in power.Regardless of nationality or religion, they seem to get away with murder and mayhem with impunity. So I welcome any leader, muslim or otherwise, being brought to justice if atrocities have been committed on their watch and under their direction.
I can understand your frustration that others seem to be getting away with their crimes, and we can only hope that will change. But we should be thankful whenever any leader is brought to justice over their crimes.
If you try and look at this objectively, then you will recall that there have been trials in recent years of Serbian war leaders who committed atrocities against muslims in the former Yugoslavia. So it is not only muslims who are brought to justice. Although the process is painfully slow and many more will go unpunished.
Try not to view it through sectarian, religious eyes. But through the eyes of a human being, glad that maybe just one of the current despots desperately needing to be brought to justice for inflicting unimaginable suffering on other human beings, could be.
You must have heard of the two biggest Empire of recent history, that is Rule Britannia and French colonialism Imperialism. Did the natives of those colonies invite with open arms Britain and France? Please don't tell me that in these two countries they don't teach their children that Colonilasm was all roses and that it did not commit genocides on innamaginable scale, douzen of millions of natives killed. Not a single Western country that colonised faced justice. Never mind the past. How about those who lied to their people and to the world and invaded a soveign country over lies and caused the death of over a million iraqis? Did they face justice?
leave the king of jordan & egyptian president out of it & dont play that rehtorical game.They are both better than palestinian leaders who don't care much about their people.
Your comments cannot hide the anit-semitism hiding behind a human concern for palestinian plight.
let me remind you of the UN plan in 1947 which partitioned the land into two states, jews accepted it and palestinians refused it. If what you claim is true,how come the palestinian population has increased more than that of israeli population, if israel has been "torturing, brutalising and killing Palestinian children since its creation in 1948"? You want justice for the women & children as if you really care about them, ignorning it was hamas who uses human shields, ignoring the israeli civilians killed by palestinian suicide bombers who target women & children too, why didn't you mention them?
you're just angry & blinded by prejudice.
Where was "Israel" before 1948? Rewind before 1948! Typical, you Jews your only weapon is to shut us up and accuse us of anti-Semetism and prejudice whenever you lose an argument. Don't you think that the actions of a state built on Palestinian corpses does not hide the facts any more about the state you support. People around the world now are not going to believe your propaganda seeing that you bomb man, women and children and talk about the Holocaust. Yes I am angry seeing pictures of tiny babies cut into pieces. Why don't you give your F16 to Hamas and Hamas will give you their tomato tin rockets. You are just a bunch of cowards who bomb the weak and vonurable. Go and try North Korea instead! You are the cancer of not only the Middle East but the whole world. Go and try your F16 somewhere that matches your strength and not an a civilian population with no army. Is this why you got rid of Nazism just to replace it with Zionism? You invaded and are still occupying 4 countries and you talk about Saddam. Arabs did not put you in gas chambers. Arabs have never wanted you to be next to them and cause them misery. Go to Siberia and create the state of Israel in there or in the North Pole .....I am telling you again that the Arab population around you in the so called Israel do not want a cancer to be next to them, don't you get it. It's not me who is saying this, it's them!
& who told you i'm a jew or a zionist? im neither, actually. States are not formed due to legitimacy but, unfortunately, to facts on the ground, same applies to Jordan which you attacked its king for having peace, which says how rational you are, of course you want the arabs to massacre the jews so you can revel & have a blast, but jews were always an integral part of that world & they lived amongst us in harmony till europeans came along, i know what arabs are saying, so why dont you let the arabs & the israelis settle it without your prejudist interference, they can settle it once both of them face the facts. & dont talk much about hamas, they are worse butchers than saddam, obviously you have no idea of arab history, so why dont you cool off a bit,..its you not them who is the cancer, get it?
AND WHEN PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF LOSE AN ARGUMENT, THEY START TO GET PERSONAL AND WISH PEOPLE CANCER!
palestinians are not my brothers, they scorn & despise all arabs if you had any clue, & they are not my brothers since they killed in cold blood some of my countrymen.
This discussion is about sudan & crimes in darfur,
so i got to thank you for proving how ignorant & hateful prejudists are, you can cook up history but your rhetoric & facts still fail miserably, & i will not answer to idiots & bigots like you again, you hve no clue about anything but full of hatred, so there isnt much brain activity going on up there, right?
Two years ago 17 aid works from French NGO was killed on point blank range, yesterday an ICRC worked killed by govt shelling. NO Aid agencies, No Journalists, No UN everyone has been evicted from the North of the country by the Government.
Last month the government issued warning to the remaining minority tamil doctors (8 doctors) to leave the area and warrned ICRC to leave the the warzone, continually shelling the civilian safe zones Hospitals, churches etc
Everyday people are dying and no one to give voice to the inocent civilians who are caught up in the middle. The civilians who have fled the war zone into army controlled area have been kept in barbed wired detention centres / concentration camps (as Times described) with no outside contact or no international agencies /independent journalists allowed to witness the wellbeing of the civilians.
All these are carried out by the state where the president is the commander and chief of the armed forces and the world knows there is a systematic genocide and no one voice the concerns of the people.
ICC has to look into the attrocities happening in Srilanka, after yesterdays judgement with regards to Sudan the SL armed forces are scared of what has happend and issued the following
"Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka had today instructed ground Commanders in the Wanni that the future operations within the limited LTTE held area should be carried out taking all possible safety precautions since a large number of civilians held back by the LTTE are concentrated in the area, the Army Headquarters said. - Daily Mirror SL 04/03/2009
For more information on government attrocies and systematic genocide
www.genocide.org.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_and_
http://www.tamilsforum.com/unspeakablet
www.tamilnet.com