Sheffield : Police are looking for three men over Tarek Chaiboub’s murder
Grieving father’s plea to parents
The press Association
14/07/08
The father of a 17 – year-old boy who was gunned down as he went for a haircut has urged other parents to get closer to their children to stop further tragedies.
Tarek Chaiboub died on Friday afternoon when he was shot in Frenchies barber shop in the Burngreave area of Sheffield.
Police believe the murder could be gang-related and have said they think Tarek himself could have been armed with a gun.
His father Rashid Chaiboub told a police press conference in Sheffield he was proud of his son but his “destiny” was being shaped by others.
In a statement read by a senior police officer he said: “Our son Tarek was growing up as a self-confident shining boy with an independent personality which I was proud of.
“But I did not realise that his destiny was shaping outside of my hands because he was not sharing much of his thoughts and feelings with us as a family.
“My message to parents is do not rely too much on the independence of your kids. Get closer to them. Kids remain kids.”
Mr Chaiboub sat next to the officer as the statement was read.
Police said they are particularly looking for three men seen leaving the area wearing dark clothes and hooded tops. One was carrying a gun and another had a scarf across his face.
Sheffield police commander Chief Supt Paul Broadbent urged people who were posting messages on the Bebo social networking website also to get in touch with
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Sudan: Genocide charges a big mistake
Facing a possible arrest warrant for genocide, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir got a show of support Sunday as he arrived for an emergency meeting of his cabinet. full story
Sudanese president charged with genocide
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan’s president for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.
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CNN exclusive: ICC prosecutor on Darfur charges
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of genocide in a five-year campaign of violence in the country’s Darfur region. Luis Moreno-Ocampo spoke exclusively to CNN’s Nic Robertson ahead of his announcement on Monday of the charges.
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Sudan: More ‘blood’ result of genocide charge
Sudan’s ruling party issued a statement Sunday predicting “more violence and blood” in Darfur if the country’s president is indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide, state media reported.
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Sudan calls meeting over ‘genocide charge’
Sudan has asked for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers ahead of the expected indictment of the country’s president for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, according to reports.
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Darfur diary: Unreliable testimony
It wasn’t like any Western press conference. No one interrupted the minister or the senior police officers.
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Ex-VP of Congo arrested on war crime charges
An ex-rebel leader who served as a vice president of Congo was arrested near Brussels, Belgium on Saturday on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to International Criminal Court.
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Time.com: Uganda’s Unfinished Peace
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Time.com: Forgiving the Lord’s Resistance Army
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Transcript: What is Kerry’s position on pre-emptive war?
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U.S. ends war crimes exemption bid
In the face of strong opposition from other Security Council members the United States has announced it is dropping a resolution that would exempt its soldiers from international prosecution
Sudanese president charged with genocide
Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president…
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BBC NEWS
05/03/09
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
But the ICC in The Hague stopped short of accusing Omar al-Bashir of genocide. He denies the charges and has dismissed any ruling by the court as worthless.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, after the announcement, amid fears of unrest.
The UN estimates 300,000 people have died in Darfur’s six-year conflict.
Millions more have been displaced.
Court spokeswoman Laurence Blairon announced the ruling by a panel of judges on the charges presented by ICC prosecutors.
She said Mr Bashir was suspected of being criminally responsible for “intentionally directing attacks against an
important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians and pillaging their property”.
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Ms Blairon said the violence in Darfur was the result of a common plan organised at the highest level of the Sudanese government, but there was no evidence of genocide.
The court would transmit a request for Mr Bashir’s arrest and surrender as soon as possible to the Sudanese government, she added.
It is the first warrant issued by The Hague-based UN court against a sitting head of state.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo made the request for the warrant in July 2008.
‘Toothless’
Reacting to the charges, an aide to Mr Bashir said the ICC judges were biased.
“This decision is exactly what we have been expecting from the court, which was created to target Sudan and to be part of the new mechanism of neo-colonialism,” Mustafa Othman Ismail told Sudanese TV.
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Speaking on Tuesday ahead of the announcement, Mr Bashir said the Hague tribunal could “eat” the arrest warrant.
He said it would “not be worth the ink it is written on” and then danced for thousands of cheering supporters who burned an effigy of the ICC chief prosecutor.
Sudan expert Alex de Waal told the BBC the indictment is “pretty toothless” as the ICC does not have a police force.
In Khartoum thousands of government supporters gathered, chanting “We love you President Bashir”.
Security was increased at many embassies, and some Westerners stayed home amid fears of retaliation.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Sudan to “co-operate fully” with all United Nations entities.
He said the UN would “continue to conduct its vital peacekeeping, humanitarian, human rights and development operations and activities in Sudan”.
African and Arab countries have warned that the court’s action will only increase tension in Sudan.
Egypt said it was “greatly disturbed” by the ICC’s decision and called for a meeting of the UN Security Council to defer implementation of the warrant.
Sudan’s foreign ministry said President Bashir would ignore it and attend an Arab summit scheduled later this month in Qatar.
Aid workers withdrawn
Russia called the warrant a “dangerous precedent”.
Darfur’s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group hailed the decision as a “victory for international law” and called on Mr Bashir to turn himself in.
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The US administration also welcomed it, as did international human-rights groups.
“With this arrest warrant, the International Criminal Court has made Omar al-Bashir a wanted man,” said Richard Dicker of the New York-based group Human Rights Watch.
Amnesty International called on any country visited by President Bashir to detain him.
Sudan expelled at least six foreign aid agencies hours after the arrest warrant was issued, aid officials said. No reasons were given for the move.
Before the announcement, the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it had withdrawn foreign staff from Darfur.
The war crimes court has already issued two arrest warrants – in 2007 – for Sudanese Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ahmed Haroun and the Janjaweed militia leader Ali Abdul Rahman.
Sudan has refused to hand them over.
Sudan:We are lions and we have tigers. We will carry on rejecting colonialism…
BBC NEWS
06/03/09
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has angrily rejected the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against him.
Mr Bashir told cheering supporters at a protest in the capital that Sudan would not “kneel” to colonialists.
He said he defied outsiders to come to Sudan and talk about human rights.
He is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. It is the first such warrant served against a serving head of state.
Mr Bashir told the outdoor rally: “Today Sudan is raising its voice. We are telling the colonialists we are not succumbing; we are not submitting; we will not kneel; we are targeted because we refuse to submit.
“We are lions and we have tigers. We will carry on rejecting colonialism.
He said the ICC, together with the UN Security Council and the International Monetary Fund, were trying to “colonise people anew and steal their resources”.
“They claim that human rights are being violated in Sudan,” he said. “We defy them to come here in Sudan and show us what’s happening here.”
The UN estimates that 300,000 people have died in the six-year conflict in Darfur and 2.7 million displaced.
Profile: Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir…
The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty
The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty
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The son of a farmer, Omar al-Bashir was born in 1944 in Hoshe Bannaga, which then formed part of the Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan. After completing secondary school, he studied at the national military academies in Cairo and then Khartoum, where he graduated in 1966.
Rising swiftly through the ranks, he became a paratrooper and fought in the Egyptian army in the Arab-Israeli war in October 1973. He served at least one tour in the south in the early years of the civil war against the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army.
In 1989, General Bashir led a group of army officers in a bloodless military coup against the civilian government of the then prime minister, Sadiq al-Mahdi, “to save the country from rotten political parties”.
Another motivation was stopping a peace agreement to end the southern war, which would have allowed secular law in the south.
Proclaiming himself chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, Bashir suspended all political parties, trade unions and government bodies.
In 1993, he appointed himself president, dissolved the military junta and returned Sudan to civilian rule. He had found an ally in Hassan al-Turabi, an Islamist politician with links to Arab militant groups who had invited the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, to set up base in Sudan.
The flirtation with terrorism alienated many western countries as well as Sudan’s neighbours, and eventually saw Bashir split with Turabi.
By 2000, when he was elected for a second official term in what was still effectively a one-party state, Bashir was coming under intense international pressure to end the civil war in the south that had caused the deaths of nearly 2 million people.
After extensive negotiations, Bashir and the rebel leader John Garang signed a peace agreement in Nairobi in January 2005, granting southern Sudan autonomy and a referendum on independence in six years.
But Bashir’s status as an international pariah was not about to end – the war in Darfur had already begun, and was about to bring him more trouble than the southern conflict ever did.
Though he keeps his personal life private, Bashir is regarded as a proud and egotistical man who reacts aggressively to perceived slights against him.
Pragmatic at times, he has liberalised Sudan’s economy to take advantage of oil production and has established strong trade ties with countries such as China and Russia.
Married to his cousin Fatima Khalid, and to a second wife, Widad Babiker, Bashir has no children.
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14/07/08
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan’s president for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday urged a three-judge panel to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to prevent the deaths of about 2.5 million people forced from their homes in the war-torn region of Darfur and who are still under attack from government-backed Janjaweed militia.
The five charges against al-Bashir include masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in the war-torn region with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Nic Robertson in the Dutch city of The Hague, the prosecutor said he had a responsibility to bring charges against al-Bashir.
“The (U.N.) Security Council referred the case to me and requested me to investigate,” Moreno-Ocampo said. Read a transcript of the interview
“After three years I have strong evidence that al-Bashir is committing a genocide. I cannot be blackmailed, I cannot
yield. Silence never helped the victims. Silence helped the perpetrators. The prosecutor should not be silent.”
The judges must now decide whether to issue the warrant, and it is widely expected that they will; the judges have approved all 11 of Moreno-Ocampo’s previous submissions to the court.
If issued, the warrant would make al-Bashir the first sitting president to be indicted by the ICC for genocide. 
Watch as ICC prosecutor targets al-Bashir »
In his request, Moreno-Ocampo says there are reasonable grounds to believe that al-Bashir bears criminal responsibility for five counts of genocide, two counts of crimes against humanity, and two counts of war crimes.
The alleged crimes stem from a brutal counter-insurgency campaign the Sudanese government conducted after rebels began an uprising in Sudan’s western Darfur region in 2003. The United States and much of the world has already characterized the campaign as genocide.
The authorities armed and cooperated with Arab militias that went from village to village in Darfur, killing, torturing and raping residents there, according to the United Nations, western governments and human rights organizations. The militias targeted civilian members of tribes from which the rebels draw strength.
About 300,000 people have died in Darfur, the United Nations estimates, and 2.5 million have been forced from their homes. Watch a tour of Darfur’s deserted Northern Corridor »
Moreno-Ocampo says al-Bashir targeted three ethnic groups living in the region — including the Fur group, for whom Darfur is named — solely on account of their ethnicity.
Al-Bashir bears responsibility, Moreno-Ocampo says, because he sat at the apex of the government.
“For such crimes to be committed over a period of five years and throughout Darfur, al-Bashir had to mobilize and keep mobilized the whole state apparatus; he had to control and direct perpetrators; and he had to rely on a genocidal plan,” Moreno-Ocampo wrote as background for arrest warrant request.
Sudan’s ambassador to the United Nations has already condemned the charges. Watch how some are concerned by the move 
“It is a criminal move that should be resisted by all,” Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad said Friday amid reports that the charges were imminent. “We will resist it by all possible legal means.”
Mohamad accused Moreno-Ocampo of “playing with fire.”
n Khartoum, a crowd of about 2,000 people greeted al-Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 coup, when he arrived for an emergency meeting of his Cabinet Sunday to discuss the charges.
When he saw the crowd, al-Bashir climbed onto a pickup truck and pumped his fist in the air, whipping the group into a frenzy.
Some held signs saying, “You are joking… Ocamp-who?” and “Death to America.”
A high-ranking ambassador at the presidential palace called the possible prosecution stupid and malicious, and warned that the Sudanese people would see it as proof of a larger conspiracy against the country. Watch why Sudan’s leader has support in China »
In 2005, the Security Council cleared the way for possible war crimes prosecutions related to Darfur by the ICC, a permanent tribunal set up to handle prosecutions related to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The court is based on a treaty signed by 106 nations — excluding Sudan.
In addition to Sudan, ICC prosecutors are investigating offenses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and the Central African Republic.
The attacks in Darfur over the past five years have followed a common pattern, Moreno-Ocampo’s evidence says.
Members of Sudan’s armed forces, often acting together with the militias and under al-Bashir’s command, singled out villages and towns inhabited by tribal groups. Troops and militia members shot and killed civilians, and sometimes the Sudanese air force was called in to bomb villages and towns in support of the ground forces, the prosecutor’s evidence says.
Residents who fled were often chased and attacked or left to fend for themselves in the wilderness, the evidence says.
The attacks, it says, undermined the ability of the targeted groups to survive in Darfur. The destruction of their homes scattered entire communities, and the pervasive rape and sexual violence against girls and women — who are often targeted when they are out collecting firewood or water — has torn families apart. Watch how UNICEF is trying to prevent rape in Darfur
“They are raping women, raping girls, raping in groups — raping to destroy the communities,” Moreno-Ocampo told CNN. “Rape is a tool in the genocide — the most important tool today.”
The chief U.N. humanitarian coordinator, John Holmes, said Friday that aid workers were already preparing for the effects of an arrest warrant against al-Bashir, making sure staff members are safe.
Moreno-Ocampo said any attacks on peacekeepers would be another reason to bring al-Bashir to justice.
The ICC has already indicted two men for Darfur crimes — Ahmad Harun, Sudan’s former minister of the interior who is now in charge of humanitarian affairs for the Sudanese government and militia leader Ali Kushayb — but neither has been brought to justice.
Once the ICC indicts someone, authorities in that person’s native country — or the country in which the indicted person is located — have the power to detain the indicted person for trial at the Hague.
Kushayb and Harun both remain in Sudan where they enjoy the protection of al-Bashir, Moreno-Ocampo said. Since they have not been arrested, the prosecutor says, it is unlikely al-Bashir will be — and he says it will probably take a U.N. Security Council resolution for al-Bashir to be brought to justice.
Senior Sudanese government leaders have previously told CNN that reports of atrocities in Darfur are exaggerated.
“Yes, there has been a war and some people have died, but it’s not like what has been reflected in the media,” Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid said last month.
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Veteran Sudanese leader General Omar al-Bashir
Veteran Sudanese leader General Omar al-Bashir
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir came to power in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989.
Since then he has introduced elements of Sharia law which are opposed by the mainly Christian and animist rebels in the south.
His career has been marked as much by the civil war with the forces of rebel leader John Garang, as by his power struggle with Hassan al-Turabi, a prominent Sunni Muslim and erstwhile ally.
Born in January 1944 in a village in northern Sudan, General Bashir joined the Sudanese armed forces in 1960. He graduated from the Sudan Military Academy in Khartoum in 1966.
He served at the front with Egyptian armed forces during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
His other military posts included military attaché in the United Arab Emirates (1975-79), garrison commander (1979-81) and head of the armoured parachute brigade in Khartoum (1981-87).
From 1989 to 1993 he was also Sudanese minister of defence.
National salvation
On 30 June 1989 he led fellow officers in a mutiny against Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. General Bashir said in a televised communique that the coup was “to save the country from rotten political parties”.
The coup was also aimed at preventing the signing of a peace treaty with John Garang’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). General Bashir opposed the plan, which would have allowed secular law, instead of Sharia, in the south.
Gen Bashir proclaimed himself chairman of a 15-member Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). He signed a “constitutional decree” dismissing the government and other state bodies.
Further decrees dissolved political parties and trade unions, as well as imposing a state of emergency and a ban on demonstrations against the “revolution of national salvation”.
Fresh talks with the rebel SPLM began in Nairobi on 1 December 1989. They collapsed five days later over the imposition of Sharia and the emergency laws.
In April 1990, General Bashir, influenced by the radical Islam of Hassan al-Turabi, reorganised the government in an bid to boost the role of Islamists.
After an alleged coup attempt later that month, 31 army and police officers were executed. Journalists and diplomats believed government claims of a coup were a pretext for removing suspect officers.
In March 1991 the government passed the Criminal Act, introducing Sharia in all provinces but the south.
Presidency
The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) dissolved itself in October 1993, announcing a return to civilian rule and appointing Gen Bashir as president.
Sudan’s Vice-President Taha makes peace with John Garang
Sudan’s Vice-President Taha makes peace with John Garang
Non-party elections were held in March 1996 for a president and a new National Assembly. General Bashir was elected president with 75.7% of votes
The registration of legalised political parties began in January 1999. President Bashir and Mr Turabi set up the National Congress Party.
But, as parliament speaker, Mr Turabi introduced a bill in November 1999 to reduce the president’s powers, prompting General Bashir to dissolve parliament and declare a state of emergency.
Mr Turabi was suspended as National Congress Party chairman, after urging a boycott of the president’s re-election campaign. General Bashir was re-elected president in December 2000, receiving 86.5% of the vote.
In February 2001 President Bashir arrested Mr Turabi and charged him with attempting to overthrow the government, after Mr Turabi’s new Popular National Congress (PNC) party signed an agreement with the rebel SPLM.
President Bashir then took steps to improve relations with Egypt, Uganda, Kenya and Eritrea, hitherto strained over Sudan’s radical policies.
Mr Turabi was released in October 2003, as the latest round of peace talks aimed at ending the civil war in the south got under way in Kenya.
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