Int'l Court issues second arrest warrant for Bashir
The International Criminal Court issued a second arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for the crime of genocide, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.
Four months ago an appeals panel at the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal ruled that judges made an "error in law" when they refused last year to indict al-Bashir on international law’s gravest charge.
Prosecutors then filed their case again and on Monday judges issued an arrest warrant charging al-Bashir with three counts of genocide.
Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo accuses al-Bashir of keeping 2.5 million refugees from specific ethnic groups in Darfur in camps "under genocide conditions, like a gigantic Auschwitz."
Karzai’s office said last month that the United Nations had agreed to gradually delist Taliban figures
provided they had "no links to al Qaeda or other terrorist groups."
U.N. officials were demanding more evidence that they have renounced violence, embraced the new
Afghan constitution and severed any links with the Taliban and al-Qaeda, The Washington Post said.