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Posts published in March 2009

Prosecutor v Omar al Bashir

As reported, the Pretrial Chamber of International Criminal Court has earlier today confirmed an arrest warrant for Omar al Bashir, the incumbent president of Sudan, for crimes against humanity and war crimes but not for crime of genocide against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethinc groups. Albeit a number of practitioners and experts of international criminal law foretold that the Pretrial Chamber would not issue an arrest warrant in relation to crime of genocide against al Bashir, it appears that such reasoning rests on shaky grounds. Article 58 (1) (a) of the Rome Statute provides that ‘the Pre-Trial Chamber shall,…