Sudan: Lawyer Explains ICC's Call for Arrest of President

Posted to the web 25 July 2008 Joe Dinga Pefok The call by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, for the arrest of Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, is already a subject of debate among journalists in Douala. This came up strongly at a press conference which the Vice Coordinator of the Cameroon branch of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court , CICC, Barrister Roland Abeng, granted in Douala on July 19. The Chief Prosecutor indicted Bashir for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed in the Darfur crisis. The Prosecutor said he had concrete evidences that the President of Sudan masterminded the crisis. The press conference, which was organised as part of activities to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the ICC, came up coincidentally on the same... [read full story]