Public Redacted Version of ICC Prosecutor's Application for Arrest Warrant for President Omar al-Bashir

Publisher:
International Criminal Court
Publication Date:
24 February 2009
Tags:
Sudan, Conflict, Peace and Security, Human Rights, Legal and Judicial Affairs, International Organizations and Africa

Upon investigation of crimes allegedly committed in the territory of Darfur, Sudan, on or after 1 July 2002, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Omar Hassan Ahmad AL BASHIR bears criminal responsibility under the Rome Statute for the crime of genocide under Art. 6(a) killing members of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of those groups; and (c) deliberately inflicting on those groups conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in part; for crimes against humanity under Art. 7(1) of the Rome Statute committing as part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against the civilian population of Darfur with knowledge of the attack, the acts of (a) murder; (b) extermination; (d) forcible transfer of the population; (f) torture and (g) rapes, and for war crimes under Art. 8 (2)(e)(i) of the Statute, for intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such, and (v) pillaging a town or place. [112 pages]

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