Ethical Responses to Genocide
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Darfur RECENT DEVELOPMENTS March 4, 2009 ICC issues a warrant of arrest for Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan LINK Selected Web Resources Danbury High School Darfur Video "The Promise" International Criminal Court Selected Books Eric Reeves, A Long Day's Dying: http://www.thekeypublish.com/Long_Day.htm Selected Films http://www.sandandsorrow.org/ Read more about the ICC Arrest Warrant for Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan LINK
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Eric Reeves, Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, presenting a lecture on the genocide in Darfur at Southern Connecticut State University. Photo by David Pettigrew, September 18, 2007. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS March 4, 2009 ICC issues a warrant of arrest for Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan LINK "Today, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, President of Sudan, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is suspected of being criminally responsible, as an indirect (co-)perpetrator, 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. This is the first warrant of arrest ever issued for a sitting Head of State by the ICC.... The counts The warrant of arrest for Omar Al Bashir lists 7 counts on the basis of his individual criminal responsibility (article 25(3)(a)) including: five counts of crimes against humanity: murder – article 7(1)(a); extermination – article 7(1)(b); forcible transfer – article 7(1)(d); torture – article 7(1)(f); and rape – article 7(1)(g); two counts of war crimes: intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities – article 8(2)(e)(i); and pillaging – article 8(2)(e)(v)." ---------------------------------------------
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