Omar al-Bashir

Do we need an international criminal court ? The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first interminable, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end exemptions for the perpetrators of the most serious and heinous crimes of concern to the international community. The ICC was mandated in July of 1998 but was bought into force by July of 2002.1 The Rome Statute is a mutual treaty which serves as the ICC 's foundational and leading document

in 300,000 murders and two million displaced people. The genocide started because of decades of neglect and oppression in the west region of darfur in sudan causing two rebel groups to rise up against sudan's government. The sudanese president, Omar Al-Bashir countered the rebellion by using an allied militia called Janjaweed in a movement to destroy civilians of the same ethnicity as the rebels the darfur crisis was officially considered a genocide by former U.S. president George W. Bush, but even

The Janjaweed are being controlled by the Sudanese government to rape, murder, and destroy.Additionally, the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir and the allied militias began systematically killing, raping, and torturing innocent civilians living in the region of Darfur (Pbs). Khartoum (Sudan's Capital) switched from a military strategy of direct confrontation to a policy of systematically destroying the African tribal groups located in this area and anyone that got in their way. No one knew that

Darfur is located in the western region of Sudan, adjacent to Chad and Central Africa. In early 2004, the Sudanese government and state sponsored militia carried out the Darfur genocide. The targets of the genocide were black African tribes. The genocide in Darfur has claimed approximately 300,000 lives and displaced over 3 million people. In response to these mass atrocities the international community took action to ensure the perpetrators were held responsible. On September 18th, 2004, the U

other members of his village in a nearby cave. People all across the globe began donating to the Enough Project blog after seeing the truth behind the genocide. Shortly before the publication of this video, Clooney was arrested for protests against al-Bashir. Consequently, the Darfur crisis became a major headline after several Youtube videos of the actor’s protest and arrest went viral. Journalist Nicolas Kristoff saw many of Clooney’s videos of the crisis in Darfur and took action. He was very assertive

spring 2003, the Sudanese government promised land to Arab tribes who agreed to control the Darfur Liberation Front (DLF) rebellion. This was the foundation of the genocide. In April of 2003, rebels from the DLF attacked the Sudanese air force base in Al-Fashir. The DLF divided into two units: the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). In July 2003, militias were formed by nomadic Arab tribes. They were named the Janjaweed, which means “devil on horseback”

exports in 2014 consisted of Crude Petroleum. But, this money did not go into the pockets of the people. Instead, an estimated sum of nine billion dollars, went into the pockets of the man who was meant to lead their country to peace and greatness, Omar

the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority from its formation in 2007 to his dismissal in December 2010. The SLM-Minnawi faction formally withdrew from the peace agreement in February 2011. Sudan Liberation Movement (al-Nur) - this group was formed in 2006 and is led by Abdul Wahid al-Nur. It has rejected the Darfur Peace

The current government of Sudan led by the Arab leader Omar el-Bashir can be blamed for the terror and conflict that enveloped Sudan in the last decades. Omar el-Bashir has always been criticized for only defending and acting on the interests of the Arab Muslims located in the Northern Sudan while ignoring the Christians and Animist population in the south. The conflict that unfolded in these regions along with violence, hostility and dislocation of many people can be connected with the reign of

Beginning on October 30th, 2014, over 221 women were raped under the command of the Sudanese government in a 36-hour period. The Human Rights Watch reported 27 first hand accounts of the event, including confessions made by two Sudanese soldiers, who admitted that the government was paying them to commit rape (Dias, Rayman). Events like this one have now become common in Darfur and surrounding regions as government-backed Janjaweed mercenaries systematically degrade, rape, and murder “non-Arabs”