Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday, 23 March, arrived in Asmara, Eritrea's capital, reports AFP. This is the first foreign trip al-Bashir after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
The Supreme Muslim religious authority in the Sudan last weekend issued a fatwa to the effect that al-Bashir should not take part in Arab League Summit to be held in Qatar, 28-20 March. In the view of the Committee of Muslim, al-Bashir should not go to the summit while the "enemies of the Sudan did not doze."
Earlier, representatives of the President announced his intention to attend the summit despite a decision by the ICC. A warrant for the arrest of al-Bashir was released on March 4. He is charged with crimes against humanity and crimes of war. According to international experts, the brutal suppression of unrest in Darfur in 2003 killed 200 thousand people. In a recent interview with BBC News chief ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Luis Moreno-Ocampo) said that al-Bashir to "cut off" people. At the same time, the administration of the Sudanese president says that the number of victims did not exceed 10 thousand.
The Sudanese president has announced that a warrant is less than the ink that had been spent on it and called the actions of the ICC threat to sovereignty Sudana.Al-Bashir became the first acting head of state, a warrant of arrest issued by the ICC. Opponents of al-Bashir in Darfur, expressed satisfaction with the decision and said that if he considers himself innocent, he should trust in justice.
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