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Statesman Condemns Bashir Arrest Warrant

Jul 21, 2008
Story Timeline:  78 days

Posted to the web 21 July 2008 Addis Ababa Former Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella on Thursday condemned the International Criminal Court's (ICC) indictment of Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for genocide as a dangerous measure. "The announcement made on 14 July by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court against an African head of state is one of these abuses ... that carry so many dangers," Ben Bella said in a statement released in Addis Ababa. The Algerian independence hero was in Ethiopia to chair a meeting of the African Union's (AU) 'Panel of the Wise' which groups five senior former officials from around the region. "If we are not careful enough, it would be an instrument of unconstitutional change of government and (may) lead the way for an external interference," Ben Bella said of the ICC... [read full story]                    

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