Khartoum, Sudan
August 11, 2021—The Sudanese Transitional Government has come to terms that the former president Omer Al Bashir will be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
This comes after the Council of Ministers in Sudan met and decided to cooperate by handing over the wanted persons to the International Criminal Court.
In a statement seen by Nyamilepedia, the indicted officials needed by ICC includes the former President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for nearly three decades until deposed through a popular uprising in 2019, and some of Bashir’s officials.
According to the statement, Bashir is wanted to answer the charges for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the conflict in Darfur.
“The decision to handed over the long time former Sudanese president Omer al-Bashir was made during a meeting between the country’s foreign ministry and the new chief prosecutor of the Hague-based court, Karim Khan, who was visiting Khartoum”, Sudan News Agency says.
“But the decision will first be subjected to a joint meeting of the Sovereign Council and the Council of Ministers for ratification” the statement added.
Al Bashir was indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court in 2009 for war crimes and crimes committed against humanity in Darfur.
After he was overthrown in 2019, the Sudanese authorities could not reach unanimous consensus on whether or not they should dispose off the former president to the highly criticized international criminal court; however, the current Transitional Government has decided to override the Transitional Military Council (TMC) initial pledge not to allow Bashir to be prosecuted by a foreign court.
Bashir has been in prison since he was disposed off in a popular protest across the country; however, he has been pulling the strings from his prison cell through his allies who run the economy.
In just three years, Sudanese pound has depreciated from 18 pound a dollar to over 500 pound a dollar and Bashir’s supporters are being blamed for sabotaging the economy.
