Genocide charges expected for Sudan’s president
This morning the International Criminal court in the Hague is deciding whether to charge the current Sudanese president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, with genocide. The ICC had already issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir in March 2009 for war crimes in Darfur, so what would these more serious charges mean?
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