Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, flew today from Johannesburg where he participated in the African Union Summit. Bashir broke the injunction departure from the territory of South Africa.
Photo: Siphiwe SIBEKO / Reuters
Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir
Presidential plane took off from the military airport in Johannesburg today around noon, and quickly confirmed his departure the authorities in Khartoum.
Meanwhile, established the ICC in The Hague asked the South African authorities to seek to arrest Bashir. Yesterday a court in Tshwane (Pretoria) banned Baszirowi leaving the territory of South Africa to consider a request by the local court of the Hague tribunal. It was the first case to justice African country attempted to prevent the departure incumbent president at the request of the ICC.
At the time of take-off of the court session lasted Bashir – announced AFP. Setting Bashir from the beginning argued that the actions of the South African justice have no meaning. Sudanese delegates were in South Africa as “guests of the South African government”, which gave them a guarantee – said yesterday the Sudanese foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandur. Bashir freely participated in the summit of the AU and posed for the official photo in the first place leaders.
In 2009, President Omar el-Bashir became the first in the history of the current president accused by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in the Sudanese province of Darfur. ICC issued him two arrest warrants – in 2009 and 2010.
The United Nations estimates that at the time the conflict in Darfur since 2003, killed more than 300 thousand. people.
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