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Executive Director Mohamed Yahya will attend a Rally at Lafayette Park
Washington D.C.
July 14, 2010
Please join our call for
the arrest of Omar Al Bashir
Sudanese Diaspora from
all over the DC metropolitan area coming to Washington DC to demonstrate their
commitment to justice and remind the world that July 14th of 2008
marked the indictment of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir by the ICC. He is still a fugitive of justice and has
continued committing more atrocities against our people in Darfur and other
parts of
Sudan.
When
Wednesday July 14th,
noon – 1:00 pm
Where
Lafayette
Park, in
front of the White House
Please join the people
of
Sudan in their fight for justice. Your support is
extremely important to bring justice for the victims of genocide, war crimes,
and crimes against humanity. We need you to help make this a priority to the
leaders of the world. Please come and bring your friends with you to join in bringing
Al Bashir to justice!
July
14, 2008 represents an important day for
the people of
Darfur and
throughout
Sudan. On
this day, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against the
Sudanese President al-Bashir for his role in orchestrating and perpetrating war
crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in
Darfur. The
indictment of al-Bashir has brought hope to the people of
Darfur in
particular but also other marginalized Sudanese in the South, East,
Nuba
Mountain,
Blue
Nile and the
Nubia in
the Far North Sudan. It ensures that no one is above the law, one day justice
can be achieved and finally that impunity will not be an option in
Sudan.
Therefore we, the Sudanese
community leaders and human rights activists, in
Washington
DC
metropolitan area have decided not to remain silent. We must come together and
commemorate this day and call the attention of the international community that
they need to live up to their commitment and honor their promise by providing
the necessary support to the ICC, reinforce its effort to execute the pending
arrest warrant against al-Bashir and hold him accountable for the crimes
committed against the people of Darfur.
On
July 14, 2008,
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
(ICC), submitted his request to indict Omar al-Bashir, on several counts of crimes
of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in
Darfur. The
indictment came as a result of enormous effort by human rights organizations
and the advocacy community forcing the U.N Security Council to refer the
situation in
Darfur to
the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation.
July 14th, 2010 will
mark the second anniversary of
Sudan's
president being indicted, yet the atrocities have not ended. Come one and come all
to share a moment of action.
“The motives of the Sudanese head of state were "above all,
political,”…. He used the "alibi" of counterinsurgency in order to
try "to end the history of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa people." In
fact, "his intent was genocide."—Luis Moreno-Ocampo
In commemoration of this historic
day to remember individuals lives lost and to build on the international effort
to achieve justice in all of Sudan, all human rights and advocacy organizations
are called upon to participate in the day of remembrance and action.
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