South Africa is set to reassess participation in
International Criminal Court over the recent attempt to arrest Sudan
leader, Omar al-Bashir, in the country.
This
is coming from the criticism a South African court made against the
government for letting the Sudan’s President leave the country despite
an International Criminal Court arrest warrant. In line
with this, the
court asked the public prosecutor to investigate if the government had
broken the law.
According
to BBC, Mr. Bashir had gone to South Africa for an African Union summit
even as the government argued that he (Bashir) enjoyed diplomatic
immunity. But contrary to court order, he left the summit early, before
the court could rule on this issue.
The
BBC suggested that there was every reason to believe that the South
African government committed a crime by ignoring the court order and
allowing Mr. Bashir to the country.
To
this end, the South African government has decided to review
participation in ICC to ascertain the rightness of the attempt to arrest
Sudan leader in the country.
A court had ordered Bashir to stay in South Africa while it ruled whether he could be arrested or not. But on his part, Mr. Bashir denied the charge by ICC that he committed war crimes in Darfur.
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