Sudanese leaders welcome Syrian suspension

Ask why similar steps haven’t been taken by the Arab League against Sudan

Ask why similar steps haven’t been taken by the Arab League against Sudan

Intellectuals, academics, journalists and activists from Sudan welcomed on Monday the Arab League’s decision to suspend Syria’s membership in the organization.

The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership last Friday as a response to Bashar Al Assad’s crackdown on protestors in the country. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), al-Assad’s regime is accountable for the deaths of 3,500 Syrian civilians.

Various Sudanese leaders also asked Arab countries to withdraw their ambassadors from the Syrian capital of Damascus as a protest against the bloody suppression of the revolution.

They requested the Arab League to adopt similar measures against the Sudanese government, whose President Omar al-Bashir is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Darfur crisis at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

Rashid Saeed Yacoub, Sudanese journalist and chief editor of the TTU, asked in an interview with Radio Dabanga why the Arab League hadn’t adopted similar resolutions against Sudan. Yacoub stressed that the Arab League had set a precedent in the case of Libya, by referring former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague through the UN Security Council (UNSC).