In response to yesterday’s launch of President al-Bashir’s “People’s Initiative for Sudan” conference, Save Darfur released the following policy statement:

The Save Darfur Coalition views President Omar al-Bashir’s “People’s Initiative for Sudan” as yet another attempt to distract Sudanese and international attention from real solutions to the violence and suffering in Darfur.  These “fig leaf” efforts clearly are designed to build support in the international community to oppose the issuance of an arrest warrant for President Bashir by the International Criminal Court and have no connection to stopping the killing in Darfur.

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Our partner organization, GI-NET, recently recorded the following interview with Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

David Sullivan, Research Associate at Save Darfur’s partner organization, the ENOUGH Project, wrote for the Wonk Room about China’s support for the brutal dictatorships in Sudan in Zimbabwe.

David suggests that China’s defense of Al-Bashir and Mugabe may soon exhaust the patience of the rest of the U.N. Security Council. But in order to make a difference in Darfur, it’s time for the U.S. to act.

Read the blog posting here.

Darfuris in London rallied in support of ICC prosecutor, Moreno-Ocampo’s charges against President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan.

A video of the rally, which took place in front of the Sudanese embassy in London, is available on Friction TV.

Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo’s pending charges against al-Bashir underscore the need for the U.N. Security Council to finally act decisively with a comprehensive strategy for Sudan. The world at-large, primarily the Security Council, has allowed al-Bashir to continue his reign of destruction, recalcitrance and violence with utter impunity. These pending charges must now sober al-Bashir’s international apologists who continue to shield and protect the Khartoum regime from meaningful measures with meaningful consequences.

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