Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir tells International Criminal Court to eat arrest warrant

[Invisible Sky Magician]

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-03-...arrest-warrant

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday to eat the arrest warrant it is expected to issue against him on Wednesday for war crimes committed in Darfur.

Al-Bashir, who will become the first head of state sought by the permanent court, made a defiant speech in front of thousands of people who burnt an effigy of the ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, on Tuesday.

They will issue their decision tomorrow ... this coming decision, they can prepare right now: they can eat it [the warrant], said al-Bashir at the opening of the Merowe hydroelectric dam in northern Sudan.

Tension has been rising in Sudan ahead of the announcement. Human rights campaigners say the warrant or summons for al-Bashir to go on trial in The Hague would send a strong message about ending impunity, and pressure the government to seek a swift and peaceful end to the six-year conflict in Darfur.

But there are concerns that al-Bashirs regime will retaliate against foreigners and local opposition groups. Western embassies, aid agencies and the United Nations, which has more than 26 000 peacekeepers in the country, have all made contingency plans in case of violence or expulsion orders.

Sudan does not recognise the ICC and has said that it will not hand al-Bashir over for trial.

[Pious Agnost]

Finally, try him at the Hague and dispose of the worthless PoS

[Trey]

Well it's good to see that he cares that they get their daily fiber intake.

[Burnum]

I love to know how their going to enforce the warrant, I doubt the UN is willing to invade.

[Erik]

I love to know how their going to enforce the warrant, I doubt the UN is willing to invade.

It's possible his own men will hand him over because he's been seen more and more as a liability.

But if they don't, I think the only effect this will have is to limit his ability to travel abroad.

[Chlodwig I.]

I love to know how their going to enforce the warrant, I doubt the UN is willing to invade.

As long as he doesn't travel to a Country that would arrest him,
he is save and can continue slaughtering civilians

[Каие]

Bastard. I'll show him who the is eating what. I will shove my boot so far up his arse he will be munching on it all night.

[Kiljan Arslan]

I think Farnan might be right about Predator diplomacy.

[Farnan]

I think Farnan might be right about Predator diplomacy.

Only works if there is a viable and popular opposition to take over right after, as in the case of Zimbabwe. In Sudan's case his crony may be worse, like Chun after Park.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Only works if there is a viable and popular opposition to take over right after, as in the case of Zimbabwe. In Sudan's case his crony may be worse, like Chun after Park.

true personally think it be best if sudan was divided into three parts.

[Eien]

Can someone authorize an assassination attempt on him?

[cristophe el perno]

It's a nice gesture, and the guy obviously is a murdering despot, but I don't see how this arrest warrent is going to make a blind bit of difference. I'd imagine no-one in Sudan has the will or power to hand him over, and no-one else has the will or power to go in and get him.

[Barry Goldwater]

Good, he has spit in the face of the UN...now maybe they will get pissed enough to invade Sudan, kick this murdering rat-bastard from power and give him a trial at The Hague.

[Admiral Piett]

Now let's see if the UN's butt can cash the check they wrote with their mouth.

[Каие]

Oh come now, it's the UN.

[Nikos]

Only an empty gesture. Ever since Rwanda, the UN has been very skittish about sending troops to Africa. I wish the UN had the power to stop dictators like Bashir,but the sad truth is nothing will come of this. I only hope the world will step up to this nonsense and put an end to it.

[sephodwyrm]

What did this guy do again?
Tolerating the killing a lot of people at Darfur because he thinks he owns Southern Sudan...and that Sudan is his country albeit with borders drawn for him by white people who actually also quashed Darfur Independence when they owned the entire place?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_people

Why are black people A being blamed for doing what white people B had been doing some while ago against black people B? And is there any connection linking person al-Bashir to the Janjaweed? I mean, would the Sudan military actually quash the Janjaweed at all if they decided that the Janjaweed is intolerable? What are you guys really expecting Al-Bashir to do? Own up and say: sorry guys. I will appear at Hague voluntarily. Gimme a break. You're talking about a man who seized Sudan through a military coup. I'm just surprised that he didn't tell the UN to wub itself.

Al-Bashir isn't a target you guys could reach. The military commander of the Janjaweed, however, is, if you tell Al-Bashir that you'd give him another hydroelectric dam to deliver the said commander to the Hague.

[Serben]

We'll see how tough he is when a team of spec ops show up at his house in the middle of the night.

[Nikos]

We'll see how tough he is when a team of spec ops show up at his house in the middle of the night.

If only............

[sephodwyrm]

We'll see how tough he is when a team of spec ops show up at his house in the middle of the night.

It will be funny if the team of spec ops ended up thrashed and sodomized.
Seriously now, inserting a team like that to capture / kill an enemy leader has not been achieved by anyone except for the Soviet Union in Afghanistan...and its only because the other guys weren't expecting it.