Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
July 16, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — The Sudanese Omer Hassan Al-Bashir will not attend the Smart Partnership conference in Kampala on July 26th despite being invited, a Ugandan official said today.
“It’s a codeword for an agreement that President Bashir delegates another senior cabinet-ranked person. That was agreed,” he said.
The announcement followed a week of contradictory remarks by Ugandan officials over whether or not Bashir will face arrest if he attends the summit in light of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for him.
Uganda is a signatory of the ICC Statute and has referred the case of the Lord resistance Army (LRA) to the court for investigation.
But the AU resolution adopted at the summit held in Libya earlier this month instructs its members who are party to the treaty not to cooperate with the ICC in apprehending Bashir.
Sudanese official news agency (SUNA) has reported that Ugandan president Yoweri Musievini apologized to Bashir over remarks made by one of his ministers indicating that the Sudanese head of state could be apprehended during the summit.
But on Tuesday East Africa and Regional Affairs Minister Isaac Musumba told parliament that his government wishes to “avoid a possible diplomatic incident” resulting from Bashir’s visit.
Musumba’s statements were taken to suggest the possibility of extradition to The Hague by Ugandan authorities.
However today the deputy Sudanese foreign minister Al-Samani Al-Wasila told SUNA that he spoke over the phone with Musumba who reiterated to him that Uganda would never arrest Bashir saying it is a “violation of the customs and traditions of Ugandan people”.
Al-Wasila asked about the participation of Bashir in the summit, said that nothing prevents him from attending if it is deemed necessary and beneficial to Sudan as well as fitting into the president’s schedule.
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Northsudanes
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
Now motherfucker president Omer Al-bashir accept he is most wanted criminal person in the world and that why he afraid to stand on trial and face justice. he knows what he did in sudan and i can believe one-hundered percent he is gulity of committing war aginst the people of sudan and guess what his days are just number because god know when every one is going to die so al-bashir he can’t get way with that to live in this world as last person. Man i hate this motherfucker Al-bashir somebody need kill his even in the sudan.
Kur
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
Yes, Ocampo is working. Criminals who have destroyed the lives of the innocent people must not enjoy any freedom. So, Bashir is supposed to be behind bars as a charged rapist and perptrator of genocide. He has to know that there are limited windows for him to travel.
Kur
sam venansio
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
Bashir,
the the president of Sudan, why do you get scared. I thought of you as the toughest man in politics and military capabilities, could face any giants threatening your reigning. To all Victims in the North, southern Sudan and Darfur, do not give your credit to Ugandan government over the possible pronuciation of Bashir arrest. Politics is a game, a play and a riddle. Can you extend someone or a friend an invitation only to be kill? After feeding a stranger will you have the gut to arrest and sentences him to death? if Ugandan government was planing to carry out an arrest against Bashir, they would have shut up and not disclose the information to the notice of the world. look at the contradictory views within Museveni government.
My fellow southerners, my message is plain and straightforward. Do not rush to praising and giving some leaders credits, whom you think to have stand with you in your sufferings and griefs. you did not needs political inspiration to understand, other than the contents of the messages. Regarding Bashir, his time will come unexpected, when people forget a bout him completely. some may say where is the prevalence of justice? But wait, be patient and do something to help your people. Build yourself, build your country and stop moaning about that criminal from North. Blessed is the hand that works & mind that fight the good fight. THOUGH SHALL FALL MANY TIMES, YOU SHALL RISE TO THY FEET & SHINE A NEVER ENDING SHINING.
oshay
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
It is a disappointment and appropriate the President Bashir declined to go to Uganda. Uganda will in the end by the one as the loser, what Musieveni did in the past couple of days he must pay for it dearly.
Samson Shawel Ambaye
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
God be with ICC UNSC government of Uganda and Botswana. Bashir the best friend of genocide criminal false rebel government of Ethiopia is now learning that he is a typical trapped rat.
Mr Network
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
Criminal all fear for their own life but for the other’s they don’t care Why bashir is fearing because of his nature describes him as “notorous Gang” and he must face his even if not In uganda his time is numbering sooner we are going to take him off-packet and throw into deem of hell and no future.
Ambago
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
We still continue to read in the media that, the deputy Sudanese foreign minister Al-Samani Al-Wasila when asked about the participation of Bashir in the Kampala summit, the NCP minister said that nothing prevents him (Al Bashir) from attending the summit if it is deemed necessary and beneficial to Sudan as well as fitting into the president’s schedule.
In response to what Al-Wasila said above concerning Al Bashir’s controversial trip to Uganda, the millions of the voiceless Sudanese strongly think that:
1. It is in deed necessary for Al Bashir to go ahead with his trip to Uganda as this is going to be his first such trip to a country that is a signatory to the Rome Statue which led to the creation of the ICC as well as the first African country to refer its citizens to the ICC (the Khartoum backed, Ugandan rebels of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) of Joseph Kony). Because if he comes back from Uganda without being arrested then he proves to the whole world that the ICC is a toothless organisation and that the Sudanese diplomacy has out played the current propaganda campaigns carried out personally by the ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in the region.
2. secondly the trip would be beneficial to the Sudanese people who are now suffering under Al Bashir’s totalitarian rule, the women being raped on daily basis in Darfur, and the dozens of women who are exposed to floggings if found wearing trousers and so on and so forth. This is the trip that may rid the voiceless Sudanese from this tyrant and a step towards the emancipation of the Sudanese masses from this Islamists misrule.
3. This trip fits well with the Presidents schedule, because practically now it is Nafie Ali Nafie (The Presidential Assistant )and his cousin Salah Gosh ( The Sudanese Top Spy) who are running the Police State and Al Bashir has been officially released by the NCP to carry out trips both necessary or unnecessary to relief him from the stress of the awaiting inevitable Justices.
So as long as the Ugandan government still keeps the appointment open, Al Bashir should do the Sudanese a favour by travelling to Kampala and see an end to all these scenarios.
My personal message to those outside there, who still underestimated the role and power of the Civil Societies, should better open their eyes wider and see how these movements can influence the international politics.
Just a quick reminder to Al Bashir, that his friend Jacob Zuma of south Africa (not necessarily being one) is now under pressure as to choose between his post of being an elected president of a democratic South Africa or looses it by encourage impunity in siding with Al Bashir. The answer is obvious and the reader does not even need to think twice.
By Dr. Justin Ambago Ramba, United Kingdom.
Father Critic
Sudanese president cancels Uganda visit over arrest threat
Omer Bashir must face justice whether he wants or not.Whoever defending him is doing zero work.Criminals in Africa like him (Bashir) and him in Southern Sudan must face ICC.
Critic Ngueny from Bor town