Darfur refugee chiefs in Chad hail ICC move against Sudan president
August 25, 2008 (WASHINGTON) – The “Omdas” (leaders) at a Darfur refugee camp in Chad gave their strong backing to the indictment of the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) last month.
The ICC’s prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced in mid-July that he requested an arrest warrant for Al-Bashir.
Ocampo filed 10 charges: three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder and accused Al-Bashir of masterminding a campaign to get rid of the African tribes in Darfur; Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa.
The letter obtained by Sudan Tribune was signed by six of the camp’s leaders who called for the “immediate” arrest of Al-Bashir.
“Any delay in arresting Al-Bashir will cause more acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing and rape” they said in the letter.
The camp chiefs also deplored requests by the Arab League and African Union to freeze Al-Bashir’s indictment.
“We, the refugees and displaced persons, reject the demands of the African Union and the Arab League, who are traitors to the Darfur people” they said.
The letter also outlined a number of other requests from the international community that includes disarming the Janjaweed militias, deploying international peacekeepers to replace African troops, expelling foreign population who settled in their lands and compensation.
The Darfur displaced leaders called for the establishment of secondary schools in the camps.
“We need secondary schools. Our children are only given schooling up to 8th grade. If they are uneducated this means there will be more war in the future”.
Goz Amir Camp in Eastern Chad is the home for around 19,000 Sudanese refugees who fled violence in the neighboring Darfur region.
UN experts estimate some 300,000 people have died and 2.5 million driven from their homes. Sudan blames the Western media for exaggerating the conflict and puts the death toll at 10,000.
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Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy
Darfur refugee chiefs in Chad hail ICC move against Sudan president
My message to my fellow Durfurians is that “together we can do it” those arabs most find their way to where they came from “it is enought to what they have done and how much they had caused”.There is no need for unity or reconciliation after causing these massive incidence of killing the innocent African Sudanese.It is absolutey stupid if we’re working for unity with arabs or forgiving them,i recommand that it is time for ICC to smash al bashir like cassave flour being smash with grounding mill.Looting our wealth in South and Durfur and by the way they used them again to import with weapons for destroying with our identity is a big sickness in the hearts of African beside the artificals ugly creatures who claim to be African and even doesnot fit the society of Africans.
madesio ukel
Darfur refugee chiefs in Chad hail ICC move against Sudan president
Dimwit al bashit you killed everythings that god created,why not for god to take you?
It’s illagal in the eye of god and human right to do that action.
Oh!world look at bashir,is not fit to life.
AramanaCaani junuba
Darfur refugee chiefs in Chad hail ICC move against Sudan president
AL BASHIR ATTACKS SPLM’S NEW SUDAN VISION AND PLANS!!!
ALbashir! You are finished!
You are convicted of Treason, Bribery,genocide,crimes against humanity,Murder and catastrophic war crimes!! Against you are own citizens you claim to ‘protect from Western Powers!’ Do western powers commit crimes against their own citizens? Americans and Israeli,do they kill their own citizen the way you do? Where is your strength to challenge New Sudan plans!? Where? You wicked inhuman being!
Why do you refuse sudan to be part of the international community ? is sudan not on the same planet earth?
De-Arabize and De-Islamize?
WHY NOT?!
Infact these are severe ideologies that have created a Messy / chaotic situation in Sudan!
Was it not agreed that Religion should be separate from the state?
If you want to be a sheik or imam or whatever, leave the governvement seat and your right place is the mosque.How many times should be reminded that Don’t Mixed politics and Quoran?
Albashir using Propaganda as a pillar of rule!
He is a CHIEF LIAR! His information is incredible to all.
Kiir’s CANDIDANCY
There is no one competent and wise enough at this time round to take sudan through the interime period other than HE salva Kiir Mayardit.those other ”highly good guys ” should come when everything is smooth but not ‘Now’! salva must run for 2009!
Where does the doubt originate? Did he not win SPLM CHAIR during the convention? Then what happened? We need not to show power greed at this time! This the period of ”understanding things”.
See how Albashir is holding his FIST against Southerners! What do you read? His visit to Juba should be protested ! He massacred 1000 people in juba in 1992 and stated that he only killed 100! Of Darfur ,500,000 died ,he said only 10,000! What he really? Even that number he agrees, do they deserve to be Massacred?
Anyway he just a ”finished human being”. No much worry. But Alluta continua!!
Thanks,
AramanaCaani.