Posted on 07/17/2008 10:34:48 PM PDT by Righting
Sudan's Bashir 'masterminded' genocide: Prosecutor
UN to withdraw staff as backlash fears grow Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service Published: Monday, July 14, 2008
UNITED NATIONS - The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court formally accused the Sudanese president Monday of being the “mastermind” of what he called a genocidal campaign against three ethnic groups in Sudan’s western Darfur region....
They are expected to take about three months to review the evidence, which Moreno-Ocampo says shows al-Bashir used the Sudanese army and members of the Arab Janjaweed militias to escalate a conflict that has left 300,000 dead and driven 2.5 million into refugee camps.
“The most efficient method to commit genocide today in front of our eyes is gang rapes, rapes against girls and rapes against 70-year-old women,” Moreno-Ocampo said.
“Babies born as a result have been called Janjaweed babies and this has led to an explosion of infanticide.
“Al-Bashir is executing this genocide without gas chambers, without bullets and without machetes . . . he used other weapons: rapes, hunger and fear.”
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