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Sudan Coalition Wants Bashir Turned Over to ICC

Michael Atit

   KHARTOUM, SUDAN - Sudan's Forces for Freedom and Change Coalition (FFC)
   is urging the country's government to hand over former President Omar
   al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
   The coalition, which represents several civilian and rebel groups,
   played a key role in Bashir's ouster last April. A top FFC official is
   asking the judiciary to start the legal process required for
   transferring Bashir to the ICC to face charges of war crimes and crimes
   against humanity allegedly committed in Sudan's Darfur region.
   FFC member Ibrahim Al Sheikh said at a news conference this week in
   Khartoum that now that a chief justice had been appointed in Sudan, the
   FFC wanted to see Bashir and other members of his government tried in
   court, and that they didn't mind if that court was the International
   Criminal Court.

   No reservations
   "Bashir and everyone who has committed any form of crime in this
   country should get a fair penalty. All members of the Forces for
   Freedom and Change Coalition have agreed that he should be handed over
   to the ICC, and we don't have any reservations on this issue," said
   Sheikh.

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