Sudan: ICC Net Closes On Al-Bashir

Five years have passed since former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir came dangerously close to blowing the lid off the International Criminal Court (ICC) by defying his arrest warrant and attending an AU meeting in Johannesburg. This weekend, an ICC delegation – buoyed by the extraordinary recent developments in the East African country – jetted into Khartoum to negotiate his transfer to The Hague.

In 2008, the ICC's Chief Prosecutor, Luis Ocampo, alleged that al-Bashir bore individual criminal responsibility for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed since 2003 in Darfur.

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