ICC demands explanation from Malawi
Wants to know why Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir wasn’t arrested during his recent visit to the country’s capitalThe International Criminal Court in the The Hague has demanded an explanation from Malawi about why it didn’t carry out the arrest of indicted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir during his two-day visit to the country’s capital.Bashir was in Lilongwe for a two-day trade summit last weekend. The ICC had issued an arrest warrant against the Sudanese president in 2009 for war crimes in the Darfur conflict. Malawi, despite being a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, refused to arrest Bashir.A Malawian government official was quoted by the BBC as saying that it wasn’t the country’s “business” to arrest African presidents indicted by the ICC. The ICC, however, has sought an explanation from Malawi for not arresting Bashir by November 11.
Wants to know why Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir wasn’t arrested during his recent visit to the country’s capital
The International Criminal Court in the The Hague has demanded an explanation from Malawi about why it didn’t carry out the arrest of indicted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir during his two-day visit to the country’s capital.
Bashir was in Lilongwe for a two-day trade summit last weekend. The ICC had issued an arrest warrant against the Sudanese president in 2009 for war crimes in the Darfur conflict. Malawi, despite being a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, refused to arrest Bashir.
A Malawian government official was quoted by the BBC as saying that it wasn’t the country’s “business” to arrest African presidents indicted by the ICC. The ICC, however, has sought an explanation from Malawi for not arresting Bashir by November 11.
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