SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Sudan agrees ex-president Bashir should appear before ICC over Darfur
Reuters reports on split public opinion in Khartoum following news that the transitional government agrees that Omar al-Bashir should be sent to face the ICC.
A young woman named Reem said: “He should go straight to the criminal court because want peace in our country by any means…if the (Darfur) movements want him to go, no problem. He’s already a war criminal in their view.”
However, another protester, Mowafeq Othman, said handing al-Bashir over to the ICC would undermine Sudan’s courts. “Don’t hand him over, this would mean Sudan’s judiciary is weak - so long as he is a Sudanese citizen, regardless of anything else, he should be tried here,” he said.